"Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do...." — Peter Zumthor

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.

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

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.

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.