"I’m a passionate architect... I do not work…" — Peter Zumthor

"I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money"

— Peter Zumthor

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37 Quotes by Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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…
I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation…

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My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was… — Kevin Bacon
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together. — Eli Broad
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit… — Alvar Aalto
I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want… — Sandra Bullock
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of… — Julie Burchill
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the… — William S. Burroughs
Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in… — Graydon Carter
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. — Winston Churchill
That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything -… — David Amram
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to… — Tadao Ando

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