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
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals, aufgeschnittene Hänge und Felskörper
Atelier Zumthor
Seagrams interior
Mies van der Rohe, New York City, 1958, Foto: Ezra Stoller
Foto: Robert Adams
Singelton House
Richard Neutra, Los Angeles, 1959, Foto: Julius Shulman (1960)
Singelton House
Richard Neutra, Los Angeles, 1959, Foto: Julius Shulman (1960)
Tlalpan Chapel
Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2002)
Ise Gropius relaxing on the second floor terrace of the Walter Gropius House
Walter Gropius, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1938, Foto: Robert Damora (1948)
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
Cobenzl
Anton Potyka, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1951)
Cobenzl
Anton Potyka, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1951)
Performance still from Moving Target
Diller&Scofidio, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1996
Lunch with Charlotte Gainsbourg
Wrapped Coast
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Australia, 1968–69
Walls made out of reclaimed roof tiles in Arturo
Church of San Zaccaria, Venice
Foto: Thomas Struth (1995)
Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut
Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto (1998)
The homesteader dugouts of Pie Town
New Mexico, 1940
Lewin House
Richard Neutra, Santa Monica, Kalifornien, 1938
Wiener Staatsoper (Wiederaufbau)
Erich Boltenstern, Wien, nach 1945, Foto: Lucca Chmel
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
Auch der Schatten ist eine Behausung.
Gaston Bachelard
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
Südbahnhotel
Semmering, Österreich, Margherita Spiluttini (1991)
Unité d'habitation
Le Corbusier, Marseille, 1952
Unité d'habitation
Le Corbusier, Marseille, 1952
Light Studies
Steven Holl
Tate Modern, Umbau des ehemaligen Kraftwerks zum Museum
Herzog & de Meureon, London, 2000, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
Islamic Architecture
Brooklyn Bridge
Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2001)
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
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