ABSTRACT
By replacing the origins, the presence and the author by arbitrariness, absence and machinic behaviour, Eisenman has found the recipe for a non-conservative resistance, critical within the Zeitgeist. He has become the first truly machinic architect, not in the productivist sense, but in the purely ideological. Eisenman’s machine of absolute resistance is aimed at disengaging the traditional coupling between power and control to retain a critical control of the project without becoming a pure instrument of the Zeitgeist. His statement: ‘I have always been interested in control, not in power’ is very revealing as a way of understanding his projects. 1
