Peter Eisenman

American architect Peter Eisenman was a member of the New York Five, a group of architects whose work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1967. That same year, he became founding director of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, an international think tank for architecture in New York. Eisenman’s works, such as his series of numbered houses (1960s–1970s) and the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts in Columbus, Ohio (1989) reflect his post-Functionalist outlook in his striving to liberate form from meaning. Eisenman received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement award by the International Architectural Biennale in Venice in 2004.