ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Peter Eisenman's Romeo and Juliet project with respect to two aspects: the spatializing of a fictional narrative; and the project's relationship to Analogous City and Campo Marzio. Theoretical projects wherein the primacy is not about the embodied experience within space such as "Moving Arrows, Eros and Other Errors" becomes especially interesting, since one can make an argument that the representational aspect is closely linked to the narrative aspect even though the drawings themselves are synchronic. The project represents things described outside architecture in forrmal terms, whether it be the structural relationships as analyzed in different versions of the Romeo and Juliet narratives, or a negation of issues regarding presence and origin as associated to traditional anthropocentrism. Eisenman describes the project as having incorporated three structural aspects of the three versions of Romeo and Juliet, which include Shakespeare's tragedy, as well as earlier versions by Da Porto and Bandello.
