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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Peter Eisenman, Winner of the Kanter Tritsch Medal for Excellence in Architecture and Environmental Design, University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design"
"The arguments . . . . written here with Iturbe in such an exceptionally didactic and succinct way, and illustrated so unmistakably, as to be rare amid the current proliferation of obscure and turgid architectural theories."
---Preston Scott Cohen, The Week"
Lateness is the latest in a series of analogies and concepts that Peter Eisenman has used to interpret architecture, and that have defined the analytic methods that have made him a great teacher throughout his career. . . . The arguments . . . are written . . . in such an exceptionally didactic and succinct way, and illustrated so unmistakably, as to be rare amid the current proliferation of obscure and turgid architectural theories. . . . What really stands out are the penetrating formal analyses of the selected exemplars."
---Preston Scott Cohen, Architectural Record"In a time when our neo-modern zeitgeist has resulted in increased isolation through the guise of individualism, Eisenman and Iturbe here offer up an alternative perspective—something outside our fixation with conventions and universality, probing the possibility of a world view that is free of the shackles of form and time.
Lateness will be of value to both students using parametric tools, alongside their professors who continue to teach Venturi and Giedion’s critical discourses, with the book’s authors providing food for thought in our digital age, as well as being an update to Benjamin’s famous angel of history."
---Sean Ruthen, Spacing"Novel…
Lateness has to be lauded for its attempt to sort out an architect’s relation to and engagement with history and time. – Michael Bell,
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