Essere Andrea Palladio. Il teorema di Peter Eisenman (Being Andrea Palladio. Peter Eisenman’s Theorem), in "Anfione e Zeto", no. 28/2018

Peter Eisenman’s study “Palladio Virtuel” is the result of his extensive analysis of and reflection on the work of Andrea Palladio, which he first gathered together in an exhibition held at the Yale School of Architecture in 2012, and subsequently expounded in a book, published in 2015. Eisenman brings to light an other Palladio, by highlighting contradictions and ambiguities in his work and by glimpsing certain states of tension between ideal and virtual conditions. But in his quest to unfold Palladio’s oeuvre, Eisenman is investigating himself, and that his analysis of this architecture coincides with his search for his own personal architectural strategy – and, subsequently, his demonstration of its exactitude. Thus, in the exhibition at Yale and, in an analogous manner, in the book, Peter Eisenman stages his version of Palladio. But, as always, within the staging hides a truth more profound than any obvious truth – in other words, more true than the truth.