Eisenman's Radical Experiment Restored

16 October 2002 - 7:00am

A Vermont house by "provocative" architect Peter Eisenman is restored.

Mr. Eisenman's residential work is sparse and has sometimes been criticized as unlivable. In fact the original owners of the Vermont house considered it a disaster... Between what passed for bedrooms were half-walls, and even in the bathroom there was no privacy. The softest whisper was audible everywhere...[Eisenman says] "I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept. I was interested in doing architecture, not in solving the Falks' privacy problems."

Source: The New York Times, October 15, 2002
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