42 Quotes by Peter Eisenman

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.