- Herbert Muschamp: Most architects of that generation, or many, I should say, at least, have been very content to settle for certain kinds of conventions, whether to go back to the conventions of historical precedent, or the conventions of modernism. The value that lies within his own work is to be this constant irritant in that system.
- Fritz Neumeyer: Peter Eisenman seems to be someone to whom architecture is suspect by definition, because it symbolizes authority. Therefore, architects, while working to achieve an architecture, must at the same time be willing to oppose architecture. He represents an architecture that examines itself very critically.
- Kurt Forster: Peter Eisenman is an architect who illustrates that things aren't necessarily what they're thought to be, or have remained what they once were. And one of his earliest gestures, one of his initial decisions, was to take a thing away from itself. His very early houses are all based on the idea that you can slip into them, in the interval that he has left open between what a house was and what a house might be. So it's a gesture of making things different from themselves, and thereby giving us a way to experience what might have happened between them, and between the past, and our own situation.