Peter Eisenman to Design Two Subway Stations

Peter Eisenman to Design Two Subway Stations
Peter Eisenman has been selected to design to metro stations on the slopes of Vesuvius near Naples, Italy.

The famous architect will plan the refurbishment of the station at the Pompeii archeological site and the building from scratch of another nearby, reported Italian news agency ANSA.

"The basic outlines of the work were presented in Naples on Monday by top officials from the regional government.

The second of the two stations, which are part of the 'Vesuviana' railway linking Naples to surrounding towns and villages, will serve a much visited religious shrine", reported ANSA.

Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932 in Newark, New Jersey) is one of the foremost practitioners of deconstructivism in American architecture.

Eisenman's fragmented forms are identified with an eclectic group of architects that have been, at times unwillingly, labelled deconstructivists.

Although Eisenman shuns the label, he has had a history of controversy aimed at keeping him in the public (academic) eye.

His theories on architecture pursue the emancipation and autonomy of the discipline and his work represents a continued attempt to liberate form from all meaning, a struggle that most find difficult to understand.

Eisenman discovered architecture as an undergraduate at Cornell University and and had to give up his position on