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Form 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about…
- 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.
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