Peter Eisenman’s Guardiola house
Location: Cadiz Spain
Designs completed 1988 (not actually built)
Client: D.Javier Guardiola
This conceptual house design by Peter Eisenman is a prime example of his ‘deconstructuralist’ style, where he refers to the house as a ‘receptacle’ (like sand on the beach: it is not an object of a place, but a record of the movement of the water) where ‘logic’ and ‘irrationality’ are fundamental components of this space. It is ‘frame and figure simultaneously’ and is based on 3 interweaving ‘L’ shapes penetrating in 3 planes.