Peter Eisenman Quotes

• The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

  Peter Eisenman

  Comforting, Architecture, Remember

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• I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

  Peter Eisenman

  Believe, Hero, Writing

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• Architecture is definitely a political act.

  Peter Eisenman

  Political, Architecture

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• The best clients in the world are the people who cause you to struggle.

  Peter Eisenman

  Struggle, People, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

  Peter Eisenman

  Art, People, Design

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• I am not a finisher, I am a starter. And I am always thinking, what is the next project.

  Peter Eisenman

  Thinking, Next, Projects

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

  Peter Eisenman

  Believe, People, Architecture

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• Architects design houses. I live in a home.

  Peter Eisenman

  Home, House, Design

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• The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

  Peter Eisenman

  Choices, Variation, Algorithms

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• If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time arranging it.

  Peter Eisenman

  Want, Too Much, Shows

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

  Peter Eisenman

  Needs, Architecture, Compromise

  "Which are the world's ugliest buildings?" by Jonathan Morrison, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2008.

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• I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.

  Peter Eisenman

  Believe, Ideas, House

  "Feuds? I've had a few" by Deyan Sudjic, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2004.

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• The world is too full of information.

  Peter Eisenman

  World, Information

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.

  Peter Eisenman

  Kids, Sky, Parent

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• I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

  Peter Eisenman

  Teaching, Office, Architecture

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• You cannot live with guilt.

  Peter Eisenman

  Guilt

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Stop making me feel good. If you are anti-Semitic, fine. If you don't like me personally, fine. But deal with me as an individual, not as a Jew.

  Peter Eisenman

  Feel Good, Individual, Don't Like Me

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Endings are like, I always say, like a women's pregnancy. When she has a child, she is happy to have the child, but there is a thing called postpartum depression, that is that she is no longer carrying the baby.

  Peter Eisenman

  Baby, Children, Pregnancy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

  Peter Eisenman

  Self, Fans, Kind

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• My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.

  Peter Eisenman

  Wife, Stuff, Taste

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• When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.

  Peter Eisenman

  United States, Guilty, Wells

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history.

  Peter Eisenman

  Germany, Moments, Overboard

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.

  Peter Eisenman

  Coffee, Mean, Use

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