‘Architecture has its own realm.It has a special physical relationship with life.. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or a symbol,but, as an envelop and background for life which goes on in and around it, a sensitive container for the rhythms of footsteps on the floors, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep.”
peter zumthor , thinking architecture
link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/arts/design/13pritzker.html?_r=1&hp
Photographer: Roberto Sueiras Revuelta
“I’m of the opinion, and this is very important to me, that we are from somewhere. Ideally, we are from one place, where our roots are, but we should reach out to the entire world and borrow ideas from other cultures. Anyplace can be perfect for the person who’s adapted to it. Here in the Basque Country I feel like I’m where I belong, like a tree adapted to the land, but with branches that reach out to the rest of the world. I’m trying to create the work of a person, my own work because I am who I am, and since this is where I’m from, my work will take on particular tones, a sort of dark light, our light.” Eduardo Chillida
” A garden was, in the biblical story, the first home. Garden is a potent and complex symbol; it embodies pleasure, fertility, sustenance, and renewal.Gardening is a life-embracing act, an act of faith and hope, and expression of commitment to the future.”
Anne Whiston Spirn, The language of landscape
“But the architecture field’s richest attribute, I remind myself, is the perpetual instability it generates that demands constant discussion and controversy. Legitimate controversy depends on the comparability of systems of ideas (not just random or miscellaneous ones), and conceptual schemas are always the raw material of which these systems are made.” Stanford Kwinter
