Peter Zumthor Quotes

I love architecture.

Building design isn't trendy.

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

Architecture is invention.

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

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

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.