Peter Zumthor Quotes

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• I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.
• If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in…
• In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.
• I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money
• There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it,
• Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or…
• Architecture is not about form
• When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not…
• Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and…
• In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you don’t know, conscious,…
• If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not…
• The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is…
• I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when…
• Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.
• I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together.…
• Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.
• My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.
• Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I…
• I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.
• Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the…

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