Stuff Quotes by Peter Eisenman

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

— Peter Eisenman

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward.…

— Peter Eisenman

There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.

— Peter Eisenman

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

— Peter Eisenman

Architecture is definitely a political act.

— Peter Eisenman

The world is too full of information.

— Peter Eisenman

In New York, a Jew is a Jew, an Italian is an Italian, a Muslim is a Muslim: Nobody's going out of his way…

— Peter Eisenman

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

— Peter Eisenman

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…

— Peter Eisenman

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

— Peter Eisenman

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

— Peter Eisenman

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

— Peter Eisenman