- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.
- Drag
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Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beauty
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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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
- Aesthetic
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020