Architect Peter Eisenman and landscape architect Laurie Olin have been
collaborating since 1980 on projects both built and unbuilt. Their key
works include the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Holocaust Memorial
in Berlin. This first book on their important and unusually egalitarian
working relationship offers a revealing look at the development of a
25-year collaboration, beginning with the title work, a recent
site-specific environmental installation, and continuing through a
survey of their portfolio. Each of the two also maintains an individual
practice and teaches: Olin is the Practice Professor of Landscape
Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania and
the author of Across the Open Field, Essays Drawn on the English
Landscape, and co-author of Vizcaya, An American Villa and its
Makers. Peter Eisenman was the first Irwin S. Chanin Distinguished
Professor of Architecture at The Cooper Union and is currently the Louis
I. Kahn Professor of Architecture at Yale. His books include Diagram
Diaries and Chora L Works, co-authored with Jacques Derrida.
Fertilizers includes essays by each of them, an interview and many
seldom-seen images.