zumthor speech in 2009

As I get older, I think I got some kind of a… I’m sort of secure that I can do this—be a boy, and in being a boy and dreaming, doing something. “When I like it, you will like it, too, because I’m not so special.” Now comes this moment when I get this prize. And I think now, and I start to feel that dreaming becomes even easier. Maybe I can. You help me to go on dreaming even stronger. 

peter zumthor pritzker prize acceptance speech

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the construction gave an implicit consent to be contained by nature.
nasjonale turistveger

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[We come from nature and we return to nature; we are conceived and born; we live and die; we rot or burn and vanish into the earth... I did not exist before my time and I will no longer exist after my time. But in my time, I belong to the process of life on this planet; for a little while I am part of the organism of human beings, animals and plants that exists on this planet and that passes life on.]

peter zumthor

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peter sumthor.serpentine gallery pavilion 2011
architectural students have spectacles way too far from everyday life and comfort


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perhaps too early to sum up the beauty of the project, but hope one day i will go to leiden and see this happen, as he said, to hear the sounds of factory working, history will appear again in another from, beautiful times...

though it's not so impressive, it suits his attitude on architecture - beautiful lecture by peter zumthor

Kolumba Köln

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