Seijo Apartments, living room connecting two courtyards
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
Dominus Weingut
Herzog & de Meuron, Napa Valley, Kalifornien, 1997, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
Booth House
Smith and Williams, Beverly Hills, 1956, Foto: Julius Shulman
Zur Ethik der Raumerzeugung gehört die Verantwortung für die Atmosphäre.
Peter Sloterdijk
Foto: Robert Adams
Seattle Central Library Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus
Seattle, 2004
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
Nacht 2 III
Thomas Ruff, 1992
Foto: Robert Adams
The homesteader dugouts of Pie Town
New Mexico, 1940
Moore House
Richard Neutra, Ojai, California, 1952, Foto: Julius Shulman
Wiener Staatsoper (Wiederaufbau)
Erich Boltenstern, Wien, nach 1945, Foto: Lucca Chmel
Villa Katusra, Steinweg
Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., Foto: Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Garden pavilion at the architectural biennial
Kersten Geers David Van Severen & Bas Princen, Venice, 2010
Seijo Apartments, model in section
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
Seijo Apartments, model in section
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
And summer isn’t a time. It’s a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
Terry Pratchett
Recollection
Walter Niedermayr
Recollection
Walter Niedermayr
Recollection
Walter Niedermayr
Recollection
Walter Niedermayr
Recollection
Walter Niedermayr
New York Public Library
Foto: Candila Höfer (1999)
Joseph Eichler Company
one of over 11,000 homes, California, 1950–1974
Volksgarten-Café
Oswald Haerdtl, Wien, 1950, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (2003)
Museum of Modern Art
Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Rio de Janeiro, 1953
Small Images
Junya Ishigami, 2008
What I have sought to achieve is a spatiality that stimulates the human spirit, awakens the sensitivity and communicates with the deeper soul.
Tadao Ando
Moriyama House Model
Ruye Nishizawa, Kamata, Tokio, 2005, Foto: Walter Niedermayr
House A
Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2006, Foto: Walter Niedermayr
House A
Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2006, Foto: Walter Niedermayr
House A
Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2006, Foto: Walter Niedermayr
House A
Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2006, Foto: Walter Niedermayr
House A
Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2006, Foto: Walter Niedermayr
House A
Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2006, Foto: Walter Niedermayr
Architektur erzeugt Stimmungen. Die Architekten besitzen damit ein Instrument, Menschen glücklich zu machen.
Karl Schwanzer
Workspace
Hauptschule Paznaun
Noldin&Noldin, Kappl, Österreich, 2004, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
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