Rain
Lunch with Charlotte Gainsbourg
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
Haruki Murakami
Paris
Paris (Grand Palais)
Alécio Andrade, 1975
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals, Blockstudien »Steinbruchbilder« Felsblöcke stehen im Wasser
Peter Zumthor
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals
Atelier Zumthor
The image is the reality, therefore there is no reality.
John Lautner
Ca'Dolfin Venezia
Foto: Candila Höfer 2003
Foto: Julius Shulman
Bourse du Travail Calais
Foto: Candila Höfer (2001)
Morning Cleaning, Barcelona Pavillon
Jeff Wall, 1999
Ise Gropius relaxing on the second floor terrace of the Walter Gropius House
Walter Gropius, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1938, Foto: Robert Damora (1948)
Lewin House
Richard Neutra, Santa Monica, Kalifornien, 1938
Deutsche Botschaft
Georg Lippert, Rudolf Gutbrod, Wien, Lucca Chmel (1965)
Deutsche Botschaft
Georg Lippert, Rudolf Gutbrod, Wien, Lucca Chmel (1965)
Convair Astronautics
Pereira & Luckman, San Diego, California, 1958, Foto: Julius Shulman
Ricola Europe Factory and Storage Building
Herzog & de Meuron, Mulhouse, France, 1993
WDR-Funkhaus
Peter Friedrich Schneider, Köln, 1948
WDR-Funkhaus
Peter Friedrich Schneider, Köln, 1948
Stadlausfahrt
Bernhard Fuchs, Geierschlag, 2005
Lichtung
Thomas Demand, 2003
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
Innenhof des Hauses Gálvez
Luis Barragán, Chimalistac, Mexiko-Stadt, 1955, Foto: Alberto Moreno Gúzman
Unité d'habitation
Le Corbusier, Marseille, 1952
Unité d'habitation
Le Corbusier, Marseille, 1952
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals, aufgeschnittene Hänge und Felskörper
Atelier Zumthor
Neige Fleur Bar
Hitoshi Abe, Tokyo, 1999
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
Atmosphere is my style.
J. M. W. Turner zu John Ruskin
Church of the Light
Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1997
Curtis Residence
Nathaniel Curtis, New Orleans, Los Angeles, 1962, Foto: John Dominis
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon
Peter Zumthor, London, 2011
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon
Peter Zumthor, London, 2011
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon
Peter Zumthor, London, 2011
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon
Peter Zumthor, London, 2011
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon
Peter Zumthor, London, 2011
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon
Peter Zumthor, London, 2011
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon
Peter Zumthor, London, 2011
Seijo Apartments, model in section
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
Seijo Apartments, model in section
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates