If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina … - Peter Zumthor
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina …
- Peter Zumthor
Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or symbol, but a… - Peter Zumthor
Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or symbol, but a…
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and in… - Peter Zumthor
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and in…
Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future. - Peter Zumthor
Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.
If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain,… - Peter Zumthor
If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain,…
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space. - Peter Zumthor
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.
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 about forms. It… - Peter Zumthor
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 about forms. It…
My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling. - Peter Zumthor
My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.
In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you don’t know, conscious, unconscio… - Peter Zumthor
In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you don’t know, conscious, unconscio…
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