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1. "Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life." ~ Peter Zumthor
2. "I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it." ~ Peter Zumthor
3. "If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist." ~ Peter Zumthor
4. "Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag." ~ Peter Zumthor
5. "There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff." ~ Peter Zumthor
6. "I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality." ~ Peter Zumthor
7. "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
8. "The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange." ~ Peter Zumthor
9. "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
10. "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." ~ Peter Zumthor
11. "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." ~ Peter Zumthor
12. "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
13. "Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent." ~ Peter Zumthor
14. "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
15. "Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time." ~ Peter Zumthor

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