Architecture

Eisenman Architects: Home Field Advantage: University of Phoenix Stadium 
  • 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.

 

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