"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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Source : "Pritzker Prize Goes to Peter Zumthor". Interview with Robin Pogrebin, www.nytimes.com. April 12, 2009.

Peter Zumthor

#Believe Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Space Quotes

“Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.”

Source : Nelson DeMille (1992). “Three Complete Novels”, Wings
“The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.”
“On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.”

Source : Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.11, University of Missouri Press
“What happens in Cabo stays in Cabo”
“I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.”

Source : "Oceans apart". Interview with Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.
“Turn yourself inside out. Live with absolute certainty that you have the power to create anything that you desire-anything!-because the power you need is the power of the Universe flowing through you.”
“If I killed my wife and mother and debauched a thousand women I couldn't go to hell--in fact, I couldn't go to hell if I wanted to.”
“Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.”

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