The Midlife Crisis of Architecture: A Theory of the Creative Leap

Emmanuel J. Petit is a Ph.D. candidate in theory of architecture at Princeton University. His dissertation deals with the theoretical problem of irony in architecture, and more specifically with the avant-garde theories from the nineteen-sixties to the eighties. He has been assisting Peter Eisenman in design studios since 1999, and he currently teaches architectural theory and studio at Yale University.