Peter Zumthor Architecture Quotations

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it,

Architecture is not about form

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.