Eisenman Architects: Home Field Advantage: University of Phoenix Stadium

Architecture

ISBN: 9781568987200
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 160 pages
20,3 x 22,9 cm
colour/black & white
October 2007
€23,00 (excl. VAT)

Eisenman Architects: Home Field Advantage: University of Phoenix Stadium

Todd Gannon

Series: Source Books in Architecture

In an unexpected and controversial act of daring, the Arizona Cardinals football team selected awarding-winning architect and intellectual provocateur Peter Eisenman to design their stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Opened in the summer of 2006, Eisenman’s latest work is inspired by and sectioned like a barrel cactus, its shell is composed of huge, steel paraboloid sections. The domed stadium boasts a steel-and-fabric retractable roof that allows light to penetrate when closed while maintaining an airy feel inside and a grass rollout field, which remains outside the stadium until game time, when it is rolled in on steel wheel sets powered by small electric motors. Eisenman Architects provides a comprehensive look at a contemporary masterpiece and a landmark of excellence in civic and sports architecture.