Architecture is definitely a political act.Peter EisenmanTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“Architecture is definitely a political act.
“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 EisenmanArchitect
“I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.”Peter Eisenman
“If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.”Leon KrierArchitecture
“The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.”Vint CerfArchitecture
“If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.”
“I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.”Peter EisenmanDesign
“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 EisenmanParent
“There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.”Peter EisenmanAbsolute
“My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.”Richard RogersArchitecture
“You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?”Patricia MarxArchitecture
“I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.”Susan VreelandArchitecture