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PZ:I'm a fan of places, wherever I go I walk around and have a look at things there,absorb them,thats what I like.

RT:now Pritzker price,most important price in architecture,is that something important for you?

PZ:Important,I don't know.It's a very nice feeling,I didn't expect that.It's a nice feeling because I'm not a networker,I'm just doing my work and I appreciate the fact it gets recognized.

RT:thank you very much

PZ:thank you

highq83 2 months ago

RT:Now you're talking about Atacama desert.

Do you find it interesting working in different continents and regions?or is it again only about the specific space where you're building?

PZ:I need a good client who wants to do something interesting, of whom I'm thinking he's really interested in inventing a special building at a special place. I need to think this is a special task and a beautiful place.Our next buildings are in southern Norway, at Northpole, in northern norway across polar circle.

highq83 2 months ago

PZ:I don't know if i always succeed with it but thats how it should be.

This means I love to observe,architecture is concrete at that point.there's virtual architecture,but it exists only in discussion,only virtual.architecture has a roof so it won't rain inside,thats what it's still about.

RT:one always gets the impression you don't travel as much as other celebrities of your profession.Your buildings,at least the big and well known,are located in Germany and Switzerland.

highq83 2 months ago

RT:Is that inspiring you or is it always depending on the particular job?

PZ:its always the location thats inspiring me,before and after this interview I'm working for a hotel in Atacama desert,we'll present next week in Chile and is has nothing to do with the alps and mountains, but it has much to do with the chilean desert,high plateau and the Andes in the background and so on.which means these things always show themselves at the place,thats my demand.

highq83 2 months ago

PZ:chrome steel

RT:chrome steel?

PZ:glas.

RT:plastics?

PZ:maple trees (pointing), leather curtains (laughing), mahagony doors.

RT:no preferences?

PZ:have you been to Bregenz?etched glas,chrome steel and so on... its always different.

RT:I didnt want to typecast you,I'd rather wanted to know if there's a regional tradition which influences you.you work in Graubünden,Switzerland, in the alps.this is of course a region with certain architectural tradidions and materials,which can be found there.

highq83 2 months ago

PZ:where one could relax, with a certain wit and cheerfulness

RT:Hanover was for the EXPO 2000,one needs to tell the viewers..it was the swiss pavilion.

PZ:Exactly,it always depends on what it is,you can't make generalizations.Somehow I think its important to create good interiours,where you and I feel comfortable and this has often to do with calmness and cheerfulness,if I succeed well.

RT:In my opinion it has to do with materials,concrete,massive wood,stone in different forms,bricks..

highq83 2 months ago

PZ:This is my tradition,not ART,but architecture as the art of building,and this is an applied art,which we all know and it obeys certain criteria,which are similar to criteria of doing music, literature or art,but needs to build a bridge to... maybe like a conductor, I'm a comductor and composer and need 200 or 300 leading edge soloists so i can enact my play.

RT:would you build a train station?

PZ:of course!you might remember in Hanover I built a wooden pavilion,

highq83 2 months ago

PZ:Otherwise I tell him don't come here.Later we try do do it as fast as possible.

RT:and the client,who's working with you knows a bit about your requirements and your terms and conditions,he knows in what he's engaging,namly,how you already said,to work with an author-architect,instead of a service provider.by doing so,do you position yourself close to art,namly author-cinema,writers?

PZ:I'm standing in a long tradition,which is called Baukunst,that's not my invention but someone elses.

highq83 2 months ago

RT:I'd like to talk about that dream.Slowness belongs to it,you're known for taking yourself a lot of time,how do you respond if a client says:time, money,this needs to be faster and cheaper.

PZ:I try to clarify this in the beginning.If he's all about time and money,he's wrong at my office,because I'm doing author-architecture,which means I'm creating a composition,something unique with many good soloists for a certain place.this needs to be his ambition, doesnt it?

highq83 2 months ago

PZ:We are here and we just do our work. That is more an issue of yours! (laughter)

RT:an journalistic issue or an issue of the media.This menas you don't react to current tendencies in architecture,but you react to the place,where you're building.

PZ:Exactly,you understand better if you imagine a boy,who fulfils his dream,who goes there,looks at the place,searchs for what it needs and wants to do it as beautiful,good and harmonic as possible,thats who I am.

highq83 2 months ago

PZ:I'm working here and I'm working near the buildings,therefore I don't have a view from outside at my work,this wouldn't do me any good,I'm not looking for that.Everything comes frome the inside.We're trying to do the job as good as possible concering program and PLACE.If we receive compliments and people like it,that's great,but to position myself in relation to the others,that's not an issue for me,you get the picture?

highq83 2 months ago

PZ:I don't know exactly what it is,this story is an exteriour view.the interiour view,thtats our work,is still the same.I hope it won't change.

RT:your museum building,Kolumba in Cologne,has been built upon the ruins of a gothic church.Visitors,clients and critics are all excited in the same way.one critic wrote:this is a valid answer to the increasing spectacularization of architecutre.it it like that?do you see yourself as an antipole to spectacular architecture between Dubai and Bilbao?

highq83 2 months ago

I felt the urge to make this interview of a modest but nevertheless uncompromising architect accessible to a larger public,trying to stay close to what he said, as good as I could.I hope it inspires you .

Rainer Traube:Peter Zumthor, ath the beginning of the year you won the german Architekturpreis for the Kolumba museum and later the Pritzker price.You've always avoided the world of star architects and distanced yourself from that, aren't you now on the way to become a star-architect yourself?

highq83 2 months ago

@highq83 Thanks a million! It's so great to know everything from these texts as Zumthor is one of my most favorite architects:)

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highq83 2 months ago

Germans are allowed to have their own videos too...you don't see foreigners complaining about our videos in English. It's a shame we can't understand that wise words of Mr. Zumthor, but don't go saying "it doesn't make sense". It does, you just don't know the language. And the people who do understand, don't say "Go Learn German". This ignorance and arrogance of both parties is degrading to human morale. Grow up. I wish there was subtitles too, but people need to change.

SoMusic15 3 months ago