Aber alle diese Feinheiten, bestimmt, die Dauer des Bauwerks zu sichern, waren eine Kleinigkeit im Verhältnis zu denen, die er gebrauchte, wenn es sich darum handelte, die Erregungen und Schwingungen vorzubereiten, die in der Seele des künftigen Betrachters seines Werkes entstehen sollten.
Paul Valéry
Foto: Hélène Binet
Church of San Zaccaria, Venice
Foto: Thomas Struth (1995)
WDR-Funkhaus
Peter Friedrich Schneider, Köln, 1948
WDR-Funkhaus
Peter Friedrich Schneider, Köln, 1948
The Monastery of Sainte-Marie de La Tourette
Foto: Hélène Binet
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
Cloudscape
Tetsuo Kondo, Biennale Venedig, 2010
Cloudscape
Tetsuo Kondo, Biennale Venedig, 2010
Cloudscape
Tetsuo Kondo, Biennale Venedig, 2010
Foto: Robert Adams
Workspace
Villa Planchart
Gio Ponti, Caracas, Venezuela, 1956
Villa Planchart
Gio Ponti, Caracas, Venezuela, 1956
Villa Katusra, Steinweg
Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., Foto: Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Still aus Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren, 1943
Stadlausfahrt
Bernhard Fuchs, Geierschlag, 2005
Rain
Foto: Coco Young
The modern Room
Interior Design by Emila Sada + Giorgio Madini Moretti, 1967
Entwurf für die Bibliothek Royale de Paris
Ètienne Louis Boullée, 1784
Wrapped Coast
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Australia, 1968–69
Schloss Schönbrunn, Ruine
Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg, Wien, 1778, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (1987)
One of our interests is how to create a landscape for people.
Sanaa
Grand Central Station
New York City, 1941
Blur Building
Diller & Scofidio, Schweizer Expo, 2002
Blur Building
Diller & Scofidio, Schweizer Expo, 2002
House & Garden
Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo, Japan, 2011
House & Garden
Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo, Japan, 2011
House & Garden
Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo, Japan, 2011
Modell Therme Vals
Peter Zumthor
Modell Therme Vals
Peter Zumthor
Modell Therme Vals
Peter Zumthor
Modell Therme Vals
Peter Zumthor
Modell Therme Vals
Peter Zumthor
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
Residence that resembles a very small forest
Junya Ishigami
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
Atelierhaus
Roland Rainer, St.Margarethen, Österreich, 2002, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
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
Convair Astronautics
Pereira & Luckman, San Diego, California, 1958, Foto: Julius Shulman