Architecture, sculpture and painting are specifically dependent on space, bound to the necessity of controlling space, each by its own appropriate means. The essential thing that will be said here is that the release of esthetic emotion is a special function of space.
Le Corbusier
Convair Astronautics
Pereira & Luckman, San Diego, California, 1958, Foto: Julius Shulman
Unité d'habitation
Le Corbusier, Marseille, 1952
Unité d'habitation
Le Corbusier, Marseille, 1952
Espresso Hochhaus
Friedrich Euler, Wien, Lucca Chmel (1951)
Atelier
1897, Foto: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Paris
Paris (Grand Palais)
Alécio Andrade, 1975
House Cap Ferret
Lacaton&Vassal, Cap Ferret, France, 1998, Foto: Philippe Ruault
House Cap Ferret
Lacaton&Vassal, Cap Ferret, France, 1998, Foto: Philippe Ruault
House Cap Ferret
Lacaton&Vassal, Cap Ferret, France, 1998, Foto: Philippe Ruault
House Cap Ferret
Lacaton&Vassal, Cap Ferret, France, 1998, Foto: Philippe Ruault
House Cap Ferret
Lacaton&Vassal, Cap Ferret, France, 1998, Foto: Philippe Ruault
The image is the reality, therefore there is no reality.
John Lautner
Stadlausfahrt
Bernhard Fuchs, Geierschlag, 2005
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals
Atelier Zumthor
Case Study House #8, Eames House
Charles & Ray Eames, 1950, Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades, Foto: Julius Shulman (1958)
Terasse
Thomas Demand, 1998
Geräteschuppen
Bernhard Fuchs, Neuschlag, 2009
Moriyama House Model
Ruye Nishizawa, Kamata, Tokio, 2005, Foto: Walter Niedermayr
The American West
Ansel Adams
The American West
Ansel Adams
The American West
Ansel Adams
Every experience is unrepeatable.
Italo Calvino
Jérôme Dreyfuss and Isabel Marant’s rustic cabin on the Loing River in Fountainebleau, France
Kolumba Art Museum
Peter Zumthor, Köln, 2007
Kolumba Art Museum
Peter Zumthor, Köln, 2007
Modell Therme Vals
Peter Zumthor
Modell Therme Vals
Peter Zumthor
Modell Therme Vals
Peter Zumthor
Modell Therme Vals
Peter Zumthor
Modell Therme Vals
Peter Zumthor
Intuition is a very powerful thing — more powerful than intellect, in my opinion.
Steve Jobs
Strandbad Gänsehäufel
Max Fellerer und Eugen Wörle, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1950)
Augustinerkirche
Henke&Schreieck, Wien, 2003, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
Bourse du Travail Calais
Foto: Candila Höfer (2001)
Midtown-Manhattan
Foto: Andreas Feininger
Le Mistral
Charles Harbutt, Aboard Le Mistral, France, 1975
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
Haruki Murakami
Entwurf für die Bibliothek Royale de Paris
Ètienne Louis Boullée, 1784
BNF Paris
Foto: Candila Höfer (1998)
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals, aufgeschnittene Hänge und Felskörper
Atelier Zumthor
The homesteader dugouts of Pie Town
New Mexico, 1940