Pennsylvania Station
1930
Pennsylvania Station
1930
Schloss Schönbrunn, Ruine
Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg, Wien, 1778, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (1987)
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
Upper Lawn Pavilion
Alison and Peter Smithson, West Tisbury, England, 1962
DDSG Schiffsanlegestelle
Eugen Wachberger, Linz, Lucca Chmel (1958)
DDSG Schiffsanlegestelle
Eugen Wachberger, Linz, Lucca Chmel (1958)
DDSG Schiffsanlegestelle
Eugen Wachberger, Linz, Lucca Chmel (1958)
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
Haruki Murakami
Seijo Apartments, model in section
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
Seijo Apartments, model in section
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
Prinzess Kindermoden
Anton Potyka, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1951)
WDR-Funkhaus
Peter Friedrich Schneider, Köln, 1948
WDR-Funkhaus
Peter Friedrich Schneider, Köln, 1948
Villa Planchart
Gio Ponti, Caracas, Venezuela, 1956
Villa Planchart
Gio Ponti, Caracas, Venezuela, 1956
All rooms are passages of light.
Yoko Ono in: The Other Rooms
Fingerle Haus
Christoph Mayr Aichner, Klausen, Südtirol, 2005, Foto: Walter Niemeyer
Foto: Robert Adams
U-House
Toyo Ito, Tokyo, 1976
U-House
Toyo Ito, Tokyo, 1976
U-House
Toyo Ito, Tokyo, 1976
U-House
Toyo Ito, Tokyo, 1976
Brooklyn Bridge
Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2001)
Salzburger Festspiele – Ödipus Rex
CoopHimmelblau, 1994, Margherita Spiluttini
Innenhof des Hauses Gálvez
Luis Barragán, Chimalistac, Mexiko-Stadt, 1955, Foto: Alberto Moreno Gúzman
Auch der Schatten ist eine Behausung.
Gaston Bachelard
Wrapped Coast
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Australia, 1968–69
I believe in an ›emotional architecture‹. It is very important for humankind that architecture should move by its beauty; if there are many equally valid technical solutions to a problem, the one which offers the user a message of beauty and emotion, that one is architecture.
Luis Barragan
Laboe
Foto: Boris Becker (1996)
Ballroom House at Pampulha
Oscar Niemeyer, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1943, Foto: Pedro Kok
Room in Brooklyn
Edward Hopper, 1932
What you see depends on where you stand.
C.S. Lewis
Rain
A Path in The Forest
Tetsuo Kondo Architects, Kadriorg Park, Tallinn, Estland, Foto: 2011
A Path in The Forest
Tetsuo Kondo Architects, Kadriorg Park, Tallinn, Estland, Foto: 2011
A Path in The Forest
Tetsuo Kondo Architects, Kadriorg Park, Tallinn, Estland, Foto: 2011
Atmosphere is my style.
J. M. W. Turner zu John Ruskin
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
Moriyama House Model
Sanaa, Ohta-ku, Tokio, Japan, 2002
Lichtung
Thomas Demand, 2003