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natural phenomena. I like the idea that architeaure comes f rom some sort of molten State in forming itself, rather than starting from a Container. We all design architec-ture from the peripheries in. I am suggesting that we should design from the inside out.'”

Whatever the shape of Peter Eisenman's built work, he is trying to grapple with issues of meaning in architeaure at least for purposes of debate. His counterpart in the world of American architeaure is certainly Frank O. Gehry, who has always been much morę concerned with the craft of building and the artistic use of often apparently banał materials. His headquarters building for Vitra, in Birsfelden, Switzerland, is a 6,000 m² building designed so that the offices can become show-rooms. Zoning in the area required a building less than 10 m high, and the Swiss energy codę did not allow air-conditioning, so natural ventilation was provided for through Windows, and the Southern wali was shaded by a large canopy. The main entrance and reception area is located cent rally to permit its use in the case of poss-ible futurę expansion. Plans for the building make it elear that the richer, sculpted space is concentrated around the entrance, ceding to much morę reailinear design elsewhere. The concrete and masonry struaure is covered with a combination of painted stucco and zinc metal panels. Although the Vitra entrance area is a remark-able piece of architeaural sculpture, it is not elear here that Gehry has done anything morę for the building than to create an appealing exterior shape.

His Festival Disney complex in Marne-la-Vallće, outside of Paris, offers a richer vision of his talents. A total of 18,000 m² of boutiques and restaurants make up the contents of these buildings. The most visible aspea of the architeaure is certainly the series of towers, covered with specially oxidized stainless Steel panels, which catch the sunlight during the day and that serve to hołd up a web of 3,500 smali lights, which illuminate the entire area at night. True to his reputation, Frank O. Gehry has created a series of unique architeaural forms, and has used materials as

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