Author: Peter Zumthor

Quotes

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

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

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

- Peter Zumthor

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

- Peter Zumthor

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

- Peter Zumthor

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.

- Peter Zumthor

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

- Peter Zumthor

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.

- 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.

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.

- Peter Zumthor

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

- Peter Zumthor

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