Peter Zumthor Quotes

I love architecture.

Architecture is invention.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Building design isn't trendy.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

I call architecture frozen music.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

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

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.