"Architecture has its place in the concrete world.……" — Peter Zumthor

"Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement."

— Peter Zumthor

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37 Quotes by Peter Zumthor

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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…
In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far…
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…
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…
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really.…
In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know…
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of…
The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done…

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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat… — Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and… — Alvar Aalto
A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split… — Alvar Aalto
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit… — Alvar Aalto
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in… — Dan Brown
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases.… — Dan Brown

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