Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough

Peter Zumthor
22/09/2025
22/09/2025

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

Swiss - Architect Born: April 26, 1943

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I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.

Peter Zumthor

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.

Peter Zumthor

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

Peter Zumthor

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

Peter Zumthor

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

Peter Zumthor

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

Peter Zumthor

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.

Peter Zumthor

The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.

Peter Zumthor

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