An installation by Eisenman at the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona, Italy
American architect Peter Eisenman has been in the news this week as his design for the Holocaust memorial in Berlin nears completion. About 500 miles to the south, another Peter Eisenman work is being displayed at the Museo di Castelvecchio, the Garden of Lost Footsteps. These two examples of topographic landscape-type installations are, to us, the most interesting work by Eisenman since his numbered houses back in the "New York Five" days. In fact, we wouldn't mind seeing more landscape design by bad boy Pete.
Link: Museo di Castelvecchio
Design: Eisenman Architects
Via: Architectural Record, 12-04 print edition
The museum was rebuilt after WWII by architect Carlo Scarpa, and Eisenman's installation draws inspiration from, and reacts to, Scarpa's design. Eisenman also quoted from many of his own past works. Typical of Eisenman's work, the design is laid out on a shifted grid and expands in many directions as well as reaching into the museum building.
