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Peter Zumthor

I can’t be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they’ll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

– Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor

I work anywhere between three and 10 years on a project, depending on the size. My lifetime is finite. Therefore, I have to look carefully at how many projects I want to put into my lifetime.

– Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor

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

– Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor

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

Peter Zumthor

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

Peter Zumthor

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

Peter Zumthor

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.

– Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor

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

– Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.

– Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor

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.

– Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor

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

– Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor

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

– Peter Zumthor

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