Quotes by : Peter Zumthor

The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a....

I would describe the distinction between city and landscape like this: cities tend to excite and agitate....

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of....

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet I like to be in their company. ....

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste....

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material.....

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb....

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears....

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's....

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its....