Atmosphäre
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
All rooms are passages of light.
Yoko Ono in: The Other Rooms
Villa Katsura, Steinweg
Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., 1954, Foto: Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Kimbell Art Museum
Louis Kahn, Fort Worth, Texas, 1972
Fingerle Haus
Christoph Mayr Aichner, Klausen, Südtirol, 2005, Foto: Walter Niemeyer
D.E. Shaw and Company Office
Hiroshi Sugimoto (1997)
Atmosphere is my style.
J. M. W. Turner zu John Ruskin
»The Barn« Home and studio of A. Quincy Jones
California, 1950
Morning Cleaning, Barcelona Pavillon
Jeff Wall, 1999
Villa Katusra, Steinweg
Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., Foto: Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Still aus Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren, 1943
Room in Brooklyn
Edward Hopper, 1932
Foto: Robert Adams
Villa Katsura
Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Villa Katsura, Gartentür hinter dem Eingang
Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., Foto: Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Residence that resembles a very small forest
Junya Ishigami
Espresso Hochhaus
Friedrich Euler, Wien, Lucca Chmel (1951)
Artigas House
João Batista Vilanova Artigas, São Paulo, Brazil, 1949, Foto: Pedro Kok
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
Ca'Dolfin Venezia
Foto: Candila Höfer 2003
Church of the Light
Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1997
What you see depends on where you stand.
C.S. Lewis
Church of San Zaccaria, Venice
Foto: Thomas Struth (1995)
Südbahnhotel
Semmering, Österreich, Margherita Spiluttini (1991)
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Paris
Foto: Candila Höfer (1997)
The homesteader dugouts of Pie Town
New Mexico, 1940
The modern Room
Interior Design by Emila Sada + Giorgio Madini Moretti, 1967
Shulman House and Studio
Raphael Soriano, Los Angeles, 1950, Foto: Julius Shulman (1950)
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
Haruki Murakami