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 ZumthorThere is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.
Peter ZumthorWhen 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 ZumthorArchitecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.
Peter ZumthorI 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 of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.
Peter Zumthor