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 Read Quote
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. Peter Eisenman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 to treat you in a special way. Peter Eisenman Read Quote
I don’t believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: ‘So what else is new?’ Peter Eisenman Read Quote
I don’t design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don’t believe in it as a concept. Peter Eisenman Read Quote
I didn’t know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn’t come to their house because I was a Jew. Peter Eisenman Read Quote
I really don’t even think of myself as being Jewish except when I’m in Germany. Peter Eisenman Read Quote