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Peter Zumthor Quotes

Swiss - Architect | April 26, 1943 -

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.

Rain Light Sun Birds Building You

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

Ideas Buildings Mean Symbols Mainly

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

Aesthetic Buildings First Reasons

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.

Life Father Son Art School Me

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.

Doing Buildings I Can Done Kind See

I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.

Wife Two Built Those Houses Them

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

Space Buildings Feeling Nice Core

You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around.

Building Cold Energy Feel You Body

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

Great Small Museums Big Drag

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.

Work Good Patience Respect Best

Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.

Service Together People Building Go

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.

Work Quality People Me Building

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