11 + L. An Anthology of Essays

The texts gathered in this book represent sections across a career of speculation, research, and experimentation whose ferocity and risk-taking are unparalleled in the history of architecture of the last 50 years. Undoubtedly, the texts selected for this volume have a unique focus that fits very well with that of the career they somehow synthesize: the difficulty and necessity of placing architectural thought on a defensible formalist platform. This has been, in short, the Holy Grail of Peter Eisenman's work and texts. Retrospective anthologies of texts have the special ability to place a body of work in a specific perspective to provide angles of perception not available during the period in which it was created; for this alone, these anthologies are priceless.