Atmosphäre
Kolumba Art Museum
Peter Zumthor, Köln, 2007
Kolumba Art Museum
Peter Zumthor, Köln, 2007
Balletzentrum Hamburg
Foto: Candila Höfer (2001)
DHFK Leipzig
Foto: Candila Höfer (1991)
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals, Therme Rudash
Budapest, Atelier Zumthor
Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.
Liz Diller
Pennsylvania Station
1930
Pennsylvania Station
1930
Foto: Robert Adams
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
Augustinerkirche
Henke&Schreieck, Wien, 2003, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
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
Booth House
Smith and Williams, Beverly Hills, 1956, Foto: Julius Shulman
Peter Zumthor in his studio
Dorf in der Sierra del Tigre
Luis Barragán, FATLB
Villa Katsura, Gartentür hinter dem Eingang
Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., Foto: Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Grand Central Station
New York City, 1941
New York Public Library
Foto: Candila Höfer (1999)
Kimbell Art Museum
Louis Kahn, Fort Worth, Texas, 1972
Entwurf für die Bibliothek Royale de Paris
Ètienne Louis Boullée, 1784
Seagrams interior
Mies van der Rohe, New York City, 1958, Foto: Ezra Stoller
Unité d'habitation
Le Corbusier, Marseille, 1952
Unité d'habitation
Le Corbusier, Marseille, 1952
Blur Building
Diller & Scofidio, Schweizer Expo, 2002
Blur Building
Diller & Scofidio, Schweizer Expo, 2002
Seijo Apartments, model in section
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
Seijo Apartments, model in section
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
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
Japanischer Pavillon auf der Biennale
Junya Ishigami, Venedig, 2008
Atelier
1897, Foto: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Volksgarten-Café
Oswald Haerdtl, Wien, 1950, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (2003)
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals, Blockstudien »Steinbruchbilder« Felsblöcke stehen im Wasser
Peter Zumthor
Strandbad Gänsehäufel
Max Fellerer und Eugen Wörle, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1950)
Brooklyn Bridge
Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2001)