HOUSE II
NEGATIVE points: Of the 10 houses Eisenman designed, only four were built. The owners complained that they were hard to live in and poorly detailed; leaks were commonplace. Many journalists have alluded to the odd details that Eisenman’s theories produced: large holes in the floors, stairs that go nowhere and a bedroom with a column in the middle.
Peter Eisenman's House II, constructed in 1969, was one of the earliest expressions of deconstructivism in architecture. Eisenman concerned himself with the sign systems of architecture and tried to create a building that was engaged as an object rather than as a building.