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Peter Eisenman

(1932) Architect

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Peter Eisenman is an architect, best known for Peter Eisenman.

Quick Facts About Peter Eisenman

Born: August 11, 1932
Profession: Architect
Notable works: Peter Eisenman

About Peter Eisenman

Peter David Eisenman is an American architect. Considered one of the New York Five, Eisenman is known for his high modernist and deconstructive designs, as well as for his authorship of several architectural books. His work has won him several awards, including the Wolf Prize in Arts.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Peter Eisenman

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

Always thinking

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

Against

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

Absolute

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

Appliances

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Architecture is definitely a political act.

Architecture

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The world is too full of information.

Data

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

Going

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

All day

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I use the NordicTrack every other day for 20 minutes. I don't listen to music or watch TV while I do it.…

Backwards

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

Algorithms

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

Believe

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

Architect

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

Architecture

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I was in Jungian analysis for 20 years, 1976-96.

Analysis

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

Arranging

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

Her

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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,…

Critical

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

Architecture

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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…

Anti semitic

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If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be…

Architect

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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

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I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I…

Age

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I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I buy it at…

Architect

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

Being

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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…

Am

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