Atmosphäre
Atelierhaus
Roland Rainer, St.Margarethen, Österreich, 2002, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
Ise Gropius relaxing on the second floor terrace of the Walter Gropius House
Walter Gropius, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1938, Foto: Robert Damora (1948)
Foto: unbekannt
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
Le Mistral
Charles Harbutt, Aboard Le Mistral, France, 1975
A real architectural experience is not simply a series of retinal images; a building is encountered – it is approached, confronted, encountered, related to one’s body, moved about, utilised as a condition for other things, (…)
Steven Holl
Tate Modern, Umbau des ehemaligen Kraftwerks zum Museum
Herzog & de Meureon, London, 2000, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
Unité d'habitation
Le Corbusier, Marseille, 1952
Unité d'habitation
Le Corbusier, Marseille, 1952
University of Arts & Human Sciences
1995:2001, Lacaton&Vassal, Grenoble, Foto: Philippe Ruault
University of Arts & Human Sciences
1995:2001, Lacaton&Vassal, Grenoble, Foto: Philippe Ruault
University of Arts & Human Sciences
1995:2001, Lacaton&Vassal, Grenoble, Foto: Philippe Ruault
Wrapped Coast
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Australia, 1968–69
Foto: Robert Adams
Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
Foto: Candila Höfer (2001)
Wiener Stadthalle
Roland Rainer, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1958)
Wiener Stadthalle
Roland Rainer, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1958)
On the Flathead River near Glacier National Park, Montana
South Bay Drive-In
Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1993
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
House & Garden
Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo, Japan, 2011
House & Garden
Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo, Japan, 2011
House & Garden
Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo, Japan, 2011
Tlalpan Chapel
Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2002)
Joseph Eichler Company
one of over 11,000 homes, California, 1950–1974
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Candila Höfer (1999)
Volksgarten-Café
Oswald Haerdtl, Wien, 1950, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (2003)
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
Bourse du Travail Calais
Foto: Candila Höfer (2001)
Japanischer Pavillon auf der Biennale
Junya Ishigami, Venedig, 2008
Ricola Europe Factory and Storage Building
Herzog & de Meuron, Mulhouse, France, 1993
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
»The Barn« Home and studio of A. Quincy Jones
California, 1950
Entwurf für die Bibliothek Royale de Paris
Ètienne Louis Boullée, 1784
Foto: Julius Shulman