Peter Zumthor: 'My work is not about design'

摘要

The Serpentine Pavilion is an unusual commission in that it has a very open brief. Where did you begin? I heard they were going to ask me [to design the pavilion], and I had the idea to do a garden. Gardens are something that I've been interested in for the last 10 years or so, and I was drawing in the morning at the breakfast table, and thought this was a possibility to do a hortus conclusus [an enclosed garden]. When [Serpentine curators] Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans-Ulrich Obrist came here to tell me about the brief, they walked by a big model of the design and asked, 'What is this? Is this our design?' And I said, 'Yes, this is for you'.