"What I try to do is the art……" — Peter Zumthor
"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 forms and shapes and images."
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37 Quotes by Peter Zumthor
Peter Zumthor has 37 quotes on this site.
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I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.
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If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human…
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In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far…
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I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money
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There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it,
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Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily…
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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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