Quotes by Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

Design

Home

House

Architecture is definitely a political act.

Architecture

Political

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

Germany

Moments

Overboard

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.

Baby

Children

Pregnancy

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

Architecture

Office

Teaching

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

Projects

Thinking

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.

Kids

Parent

Sky

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

Architecture

Believe

People

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

Believe

House

Ideas

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

Coffee

Mean

Use

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Architecture

Art

Baby

Believe

Children

Choices

Coffee

Comforting

Compromise

Design

Don't Like Me

Fans

Feel Good

Germany

Guilt

Guilty

Hero

Home

House

Ideas

Individual

Information

Kids

Kind

Mean

Moments

Needs

Office

Overboard

Parent

People

Political

Pregnancy

Projects

Remember

Self

Shows

Sky

Struggle

Stuff

Taste

Teaching

Thinking

Too Much

United States

Use

Variation

Want

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Quotes by Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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