"I think the chance of finding beauty is……" — Peter Zumthor
"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 what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers."
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Peter Zumthor
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37 Quotes by Peter Zumthor
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Architecture is not about form
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When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's…
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Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really.…
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In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know…
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If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of…
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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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