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Design Quotes by Peter Zumthor
- In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.
- 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…
- 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…
- The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me…
- When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its…
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- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks