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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• Peter Zumthor:

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

• Peter Zumthor:

  I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, ma

• Peter Zumthor:

  Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

• Peter Zumthor:

  Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do

• Peter Zumthor:

  I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architec

• Peter Zumthor:

  You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin

• Peter Zumthor:

  I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the materia

• Peter Zumthor:

  My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their comp

• Peter Zumthor:

  Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go...

• Peter Zumthor:

  I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and takin