Atmosphäre

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
Wiener Stadthalle
Wiener Stadthalle Roland Rainer, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1958)
Wiener Stadthalle
Wiener Stadthalle Roland Rainer, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1958)
Church of the Light
Church of the Light Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1997
Swan Yard ch 5
Swan Yard ch 5 Foto: Hélène Binet
Swan Yard ch 5
Swan Yard ch 5 Foto: Hélène Binet
Swan Yard ch 5
Swan Yard ch 5 Foto: Hélène Binet
Swan Yard ch 5
Swan Yard ch 5 Foto: Hélène Binet
Swan Yard ch 5
Swan Yard ch 5 Foto: Hélène Binet
Foto: Coco Young
Paris
Paris
Paris (Grand Palais)
Paris (Grand Palais) Alécio Andrade, 1975
Toter Raum
Toter Raum Gregor Schneider, 1989
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Kunsthaus Bregenz Candila Höfer (1999)
Glass Palace
Glass Palace Frits Peutz Schunck, Heerlen, Niederlande, 1935
A Path in The Forest
A Path in The Forest Tetsuo Kondo Architects, Kadriorg Park, Tallinn, Estland, Foto: 2011
A Path in The Forest
A Path in The Forest Tetsuo Kondo Architects, Kadriorg Park, Tallinn, Estland, Foto: 2011
A Path in The Forest
A Path in The Forest Tetsuo Kondo Architects, Kadriorg Park, Tallinn, Estland, Foto: 2011
Upper Lawn Pavilion
Upper Lawn Pavilion Alison and Peter Smithson, West Tisbury, England, 1962
Café Prückl
Café Prückl Oswald Haerdtl, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1955)
Institute of Technology
Institute of Technology Junya Ishigami, Kanagawa, Japan, 2009, Foto: Iwan Baan
Institute of Technology
Institute of Technology Junya Ishigami, Kanagawa, Japan, 2009, Foto: Iwan Baan
DDSG Schiffsanlegestelle
DDSG Schiffsanlegestelle Eugen Wachberger, Linz, Lucca Chmel (1958)
DDSG Schiffsanlegestelle
DDSG Schiffsanlegestelle Eugen Wachberger, Linz, Lucca Chmel (1958)
DDSG Schiffsanlegestelle
DDSG Schiffsanlegestelle Eugen Wachberger, Linz, Lucca Chmel (1958)
Villa Katsura, Steinweg
Villa Katsura, Steinweg Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., 1954, Foto: Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Ricola Europe Factory and Storage Building
Ricola Europe Factory and Storage Building Herzog & de Meuron, Mulhouse, France, 1993
Foto: Robert Adams
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
Rosen Residence
Rosen Residence Craig Ellwood, West Los Angeles, 1964
Villa Planchart
Villa Planchart Gio Ponti, Caracas, Venezuela, 1956
Villa Planchart
Villa Planchart Gio Ponti, Caracas, Venezuela, 1956
Der Begriff der Atmosphäre stört den Architektur-Diskurs – er verfolgt diejenigen, die versuchen, ihm zu entkommen, und entgeht denjenigen, die ihm hinterherjagen.
Siegfrid Giedion in: Raum, Zeit, Architektur
Volksgarten-Café
Volksgarten-Café Oswald Haerdtl, Wien, 1950, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (2003)
Lichtung
Lichtung Thomas Demand, 2003
Deutsche Botschaft
Deutsche Botschaft Georg Lippert, Rudolf Gutbrod, Wien, Lucca Chmel (1965)
Deutsche Botschaft
Deutsche Botschaft Georg Lippert, Rudolf Gutbrod, Wien, Lucca Chmel (1965)
Fingerle Haus
Fingerle Haus Christoph Mayr Aichner, Klausen, Südtirol, 2005, Foto: Walter Niemeyer
Residence that resembles a very small forest
Residence that resembles a very small forest Junya Ishigami
Schindlers's House
Schindlers's House Hiroshi Sugimoto (1997)
All rooms are passages of light.
Yoko Ono in: The Other Rooms
Ocean Swimming Pool
Ocean Swimming Pool St. Malo, France
Jérôme Dreyfuss and Isabel Marant’s rustic cabin on the Loing River in Fountainebleau, France
Jérôme Dreyfuss and Isabel Marant’s rustic cabin on the Loing River in Fountainebleau, France