2025-10-24
Welcome to Insights, conversations with global innovators in art and architecture.
I'm Victoria Newhouse.
Today I'm very happy to welcome as my guest architect and theorist Peter Eisenman.
Peter is 93 years old, so he's a wonderful addition to this series,
featuring some of the world's most renowned living architects all over age 80 and all actively at work.
Peter is still teaching at Cornell University here in Manhattan after serving on the faculty of Yale,
Princeton, Harvard, Cooper Union, and Cambridge.
He himself holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
Peter also holds a place in architectural history as one of the New York Five,
pace setters with Michael Graves, Charles Gwathme, John Hedgick, and Richard Meyer.
Peter and I are both New Yorkers.
So I'm thrilled we were able to meet in person for our conversation.
You have been called an architectural impresario, an intellectual provocateur,
and in your own words, a character in a woody...
Allen movie.
You remember that?
You remember that conversation you had with Charlie Shanks?
Yes.
Your career reads like a who's who of the architectural world.
You've published numerous books, with a new one, rewriting Alberti, imminent.