House IV Project, Falls Village, Connecticut (Axonometrics)

Peter Eisenman

1975

A long ink-on-frosted-polymer axonometric study in which Eisenman breaks a house down into a sequence of cube-like variations to test and reveal underlying spatial ideas.

Across the wide, pale sheet dozens of small, precise cube drawings march in rows—each a subtle permutation whose delicate, technical lines and implied overlaps create a rhythmic, almost cinematic unfolding of form.

The piece exemplifies Eisenman’s move to treat architectural drawings as conceptual experiments, helping to recast design as a theoretical process and influencing later analytical and deconstructive approaches in architecture.

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Art Terms

Architectural drawing Architecture Ink Drawing Conceptual art Design Contemporary art

Exhibitions

Architectural Models from the Collection

1974

Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

1953

Modern Architecture for the Modern School

1942

Architecture and Imagery: Four New Buildings

1959