Peter Eisenman (born 1932) is an American architect and theorist, one of the New York Five and a leading figure of deconstructivism. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he studied at Cornell and Columbia and took a doctorate at the University of Cambridge. He first came to notice with the New York Five, whose members began by reworking the architecture of Le Corbusier. In 1967 he founded the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, which he led until 1981. The fragmented forms of his later work placed him in the Museum of Modern Art's "Deconstructivist" exhibition of 1988. He received the Wolf Prize in 2010.
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He is known for his numbered houses, among them House VI (Frank Residence) in Cornwall, Connecticut (1975). The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio (1989) is crossed by a white metal grid like scaffolding and follows two street grids that differ by 12.25 degrees. In Berlin, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (2005) covers a sloping site with 2,711 concrete stelae of varying heights. His State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona (2006) has a retractable roof.
