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Architecture Quotes by Peter Zumthor
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.
- There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.
- Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want…
- I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is…
- In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.
- Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
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