House II by Peter Eisenman

One of four structures actually completed in Eisenman’s series of modern houses, House II’s complicated make-up exemplifies the architect’s exploration of the conventional relationship between home and dweller. The house’s divisions problematize the structure’s significance by pointing out that a “home” is truly devoid of meaning before it is injected with commodities—it is simply an empty box until we haul in our washing machines, our medicine bottles, our microwave-safe tupperware—but how often is this construction acknowledged? Eisenman seeks to create a generic space, one without pre-defined strictures and content. It seems then that the structure is more design as design than house as house.