Architect and theorist, United States As an architect, writer, educator, and theorist, Peter Eisenman has consistently striven to reveal the critical function of architecture. His commitment to maintaining architecture as a critical practice has led him to adopt the role of architectural impresario, inciting, supporting, and publishing the research and production of subsequent generations of architects. Eisenman’s writings, most notably “Notes on Conceptual Architecture: Towards a Definition” (1971), “The Futility of Objects” (1984), and “The End of the Classical, the End of the Beginning, the End of the End” (1984), have become seminal texts within architectural theory. Eisenman was the founder and director of the architectural think tank the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS; 1967–82). At the IAUS, Eisenman was also one of the founders and editors of Oppositions , a seminal and influential journal of architectural criticism. It was during this period as well that a 1...