Peter Zumthor Quotes - Page 2

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

  Peter Zumthor

  Real, Quality, Needs

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• If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

  Peter Zumthor

  Artist, Together, Architect

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• I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.

  Peter Zumthor

  Commitment, Names, Together

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• The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.

  Peter Zumthor

  Comforting, Done, Lines

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• Architecture 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 Zumthor

  Letting Go, Order, Care

  "Peter Zumthor: In pursuit of perfection" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.

  Peter Zumthor

  People, Design, Arrogance

  "Peter Zumthor: In pursuit of perfection" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• 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

  Home, Hands, Years

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• The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.

  Peter Zumthor

  Running, Art, Father

  "Peter Zumthor: In pursuit of perfection" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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