Atmosphäre

Villa Katsura, Gartentür hinter dem Eingang
Villa Katsura, Gartentür hinter dem Eingang Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., Foto: Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Paris
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Paris Foto: Candila Höfer (1997)
Artigas House
Artigas House João Batista Vilanova Artigas, São Paulo, Brazil, 1949, Foto: Pedro Kok
Residence that resembles a very small forest
Residence that resembles a very small forest Junya Ishigami
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
Kloster von Tlalpan
Kloster von Tlalpan Luis Barragán, Tlalpan, Mexiko-Stadt, 1960, Foto: Alberto Moreno Gúzman
Kloster von Tlalpan
Kloster von Tlalpan Luis Barragán, Tlalpan, Mexiko-Stadt, 1969, Foto: Jérôme Habersetzer und Danièle Pauly
Schloss Schönbrunn, Ruine
Schloss Schönbrunn, Ruine Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg, Wien, 1778, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (1987)
Schindlers's House
Schindlers's House Hiroshi Sugimoto (1997)
Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.
Liz Diller
Museo Civivo Vicenza II
Museo Civivo Vicenza II Foto: Candila Höfer (1988)
Café Prückl
Café Prückl Oswald Haerdtl, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1955)
Sammlung Goetz
Sammlung Goetz Herzog & de Meuron, München, 1991–92
WDR-Funkhaus
WDR-Funkhaus Peter Friedrich Schneider, Köln, 1948
WDR-Funkhaus
WDR-Funkhaus Peter Friedrich Schneider, Köln, 1948
Kimbell Art Museum
Kimbell Art Museum Louis Kahn, Fort Worth, Texas, 1972
Tate Modern, Umbau des ehemaligen Kraftwerks zum Museum
Tate Modern, Umbau des ehemaligen Kraftwerks zum Museum Herzog & de Meureon, London, 2000, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
Fingerle Haus
Fingerle Haus Christoph Mayr Aichner, Klausen, Südtirol, 2005, Foto: Walter Niemeyer
Glass Palace
Glass Palace Frits Peutz Schunck, Heerlen, Niederlande, 1935
Lichtung
Lichtung Thomas Demand, 2003
U-House
U-House Toyo Ito, Tokyo, 1976
U-House
U-House Toyo Ito, Tokyo, 1976
U-House
U-House Toyo Ito, Tokyo, 1976
U-House
U-House Toyo Ito, Tokyo, 1976
D.E. Shaw and Company Office
D.E. Shaw and Company Office Hiroshi Sugimoto (1997)
Stadl mit Holunderbeerensträuchern
Stadl mit Holunderbeerensträuchern Bernhard Fuchs, Herrnschlag, 2010
Zur Ethik der Raumerzeugung gehört die Verantwortung für die Atmosphäre.
Peter Sloterdijk
The image is the reality, therefore there is no reality.
John Lautner
Garagentor
Garagentor Bernhard Fuchs, Neuschlag, 2009
Pennsylvania Station
Pennsylvania Station 1930
Pennsylvania Station
Pennsylvania Station 1930
The indistinction of inside and outside leads to the discovery of another dimension.
Deleuze & Guattari
Kloster Actopan, die Außengalerie
Kloster Actopan, die Außengalerie Foto: Luis Barragán
At the turn of the millennium, the great challenge for architects is the re-sensualisation, re-mythologisation and re-poetisation of the human domicile.
Juhani Pallasmaa