Quotes by : Peter Zumthor

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

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

If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this....

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

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research,....

I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do....

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

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....

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