1932-
Architect

Rebel Turned Success.

Peter Eisenman, long known by his peers as the incomprehensible rebel of architecture, flourished in the late 1980s. He is recognized as a member of the postmodernist group called the "New York Five," who collaborated on an influential 1972 publication. Eisenman had not been as productive as his peers, creating four houses in two decades, but in 1989 he designed (with Richard Trott of Columbus) the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts on the campus of Ohio State University, which resulted in more major commissions. Not only an architect but also an educator and theoretician, he is the leader of the deconstructivism movement in architecture.

Life.

Eisenman was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1932. After completing a bachelor's degree in architecture at Cornell University, he received advanced degrees at Columbia University and Cambridge University. His early influences included the unconventional dean of architecture...