Chapter 2 of 21
Peter Eisenman
Norman Foster is a media figure. I mean, you know, he's a media giant. He's got an office of three hundred, five hundred people. When he started out, he was a very good architect. I don't know if I would call him a very good architect now, but history will decide those kinds of things. But he's a media figure. Lord Foster, Lord Rogers, you know, they attained a certain status because of their mediated capacity. I mean, no one got to be a Lord when I was in England in the 60s. If you got to be a Sir, that was really something. But to become a lord, my God. I mean, Corbu spent thirteen years of his life not building a thing, right? He's the great architect of the twentieth century. Media didn't help him at all. And he didn't give a damn for it. What I'm saying is that the architects today use media and produce things because media is an aggressive form of behaviour. It constantly wants something new. So architects have to be constantly producing new things, new ideas. You want to know your media. You want to know my new ideas, right? You don't want to just know my ideas. You want to know what are you thinking now, right?