Field of Diagrams - Eisenman’s reimagined Rome is here populated by a collection of residential towers each with its own structuring principles.

Kaleb Boyette participated in the creation of the towers within the reimagined plan of Rome.

Photo credit Eisenman Architects

Photo credit Eisenman Architects

Photo credit Eisenman Architects

The Plaid Tower draws on the basic logic of the grid. The grid can serve architectural combinations to structure and embellish. As with Piranesi, structure and ornamentation are seen as confounded. The reading, undecidable. This between condition of embellishment or being held up introduces a new layer of existence. The seen object can neither be categorized as belonging fully to logic or to aesthetic, but to both and having tendencies of both. And it is this quality that is the aspiration of The Plaid Tower

digital artwork credit Eisenman Architects

In this image towers are engraved from the fabric of Rome. Their expression drawn from the latent potential of grid logic and the architectural fantasies of Piranesi.