Project: Architecture & Design Series, to include two major commissioned site-specific installations: Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos of UN Studio will conceptualize the sensibility of the “holiday home”, and internationally-recognized, award-winning architects Peter Eisenman and Philadelphia-based landscape architect Laurie Olin will present their collaborations, realized and unrealized. Based in Amsterdam, Van Berkel and Bos’s firm, UN Studio, is meant to act as a “powerhouse” in which architects, graphic designers, stylists, engineers, and other building and creative professionals can collaborate dynamically. Their projects have been seen at The Architecture Biennale of Venice, MoMA, the Pompidou, and many other major venues. The work of UN Studio was the subject of a major monographic exhibition at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam in 2002. The Eisenman/Olin collaborations explore the aspects and possibilities inherent in the interaction of site and structure, of architecture and landscape. In 2001, Eisenman received the Medal of Honor from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and the Smithsonian’s 2001 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture. Eisenman has received international honors and awards, most recently the 2003 Premio Internacial de Artes Plasticas by the Fundacion Cristobal Gabarron, Spain. Olin is amongst America’s most distinguished landscape architects practicing today. His projects include Bryant Park and Battery Park City in New York, The Getty Center in Los Angeles, new public squares in London, housing in Frankfurt, commercial development in Barcelona, and major planning and design projects at academic institutions nationwide. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture, and he is on the faculty of Penn’s department of architecture and landscape architecture. Project Dates: July 2005-January 2007