ABSTRACT
Archaeology describes a different method: it works with fractures and discontinuities. Archaeology offered him the chance to overcome this personal and professional impasse and in 1978, with the project for Cannaregio, a new phase began, in which past and present merged. The aim of any archaeological method is not to read history in order to discover the truth or the spirit of a given period. Eisenman took up these concepts and tried to apply them both to critical analysis and the architecture project. The project engaged a critical and dynamic relationship with the historical city, as the concept of site interacted with other influences. Anti-memory pursued neither progress nor a perfect future. Anti-memory did not imply historicism or formalism. Anti-memory did not mean mimetism. Anti-memory was opposite of but symmetrical with memory, as it worked on the production of a frozen fragment with no past and no future.
