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

~Peter Zumthor

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What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

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

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

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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.

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If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.

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

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Architect

Born: April 26th, 1943

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