Peter Eisenman Quotes

I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.

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

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.

My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets.

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

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.

The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.

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

I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I buy it at J. Press. I have a blue blazer that I wear 80 percent of the time.

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

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

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

The world is too full of information.

I use the NordicTrack every other day for 20 minutes. I don't listen to music or watch TV while I do it. I count to myself. I count to 25; I count to 25 backwards, that sort of thing.

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