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Peter Zumthor Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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 not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

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's about space and material.



In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.



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.



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.



I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.



Architecture is not about form

Architecture is not about form



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

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



Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.



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.



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.





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If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.

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It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.

It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.



In life, when presented with any situation, breathe, take your time, focus and then decide what to do.

In life, when presented with any situation, breathe, take your time, focus and then decide what to do.



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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

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