architecture

presence

nationality

Swiss

occupation / innovator as

architect

university teacher

restorer

designer

 Berlin

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Royal Academy of Arts

Academy of Arts

is not about forms, but space and material.

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.

must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness, like a patina, scratches, rubbed-down varnish.

I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

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

is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

Peter Zumthor

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