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

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• Peter Zumthor:

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

• Peter Zumthor:

  The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But

• Peter Zumthor:

  In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the

• Peter Zumthor:

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

• Peter Zumthor:

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

• Peter Zumthor:

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

• Peter Zumthor:

  I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for

• Peter Zumthor:

  If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge

• Peter Zumthor:

  What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is

• Peter Zumthor:

  Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think o