Peter Eisenman
Theoretical architect of Wexner Center, using grids and fragmentation to challenge norms.
Most quoted
"The problem with architecture today is that it's too concerned with solving problems. It should be about creating problems."
— from Lecture, 1980
"Architecture is a language, and like any language, it can be used to say things that are not immediately obvious."
— from Book: House X, 1977
"I'm interested in architecture that makes you think, not just architecture that makes you comfortable."
— from Interview, 1985
All quotes by Peter Eisenman (102)
My architecture is a dialogue with absence.
Innovation comes from violating conventions.
The facade is a lie that reveals truth.
Architecture is the art of making visible the invisible.
I design spaces that demand reinterpretation.
The grid is a cage; I break it open.
Every project is an act of resistance.
Form is the residue of process.
Architecture must unsettle the status quo.
The interior is an exterior turned inside out.
I build monuments to memory's failure.
Deconstruct the monument to reconstruct meaning.
Space is not given; it is made through disruption.
My work is a critique of architectural certainty.
The line in architecture is a question mark.
Buildings evolve through their own contradictions.
I am an explorer of architectural voids.
Tradition is what we unlearn to innovate.
The essence of design is instability.
Architecture is a perpetual unfinished sentence.
Contemporaries of Peter Eisenman
Other Architectures born within 50 years of Peter Eisenman (1932).