Schloss Schönbrunn, Ruine
Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg, Wien, 1778, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (1987)
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
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
Convair Astronautics
Pereira & Luckman, San Diego, California, 1958, Foto: Julius Shulman
One of our interests is how to create a landscape for people.
Sanaa
Architektur erzeugt Stimmungen. Die Architekten besitzen damit ein Instrument, Menschen glücklich zu machen.
Karl Schwanzer
Dominus Weingut
Herzog & de Meuron, Napa Valley, Kalifornien, 1997, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
New York Public Library
Foto: Candila Höfer (1999)
Ca'Dolfin Venezia
Foto: Candila Höfer 2003
Moore House
Richard Neutra, Ojai, California, 1952, Foto: Julius Shulman
Booth House
Smith and Williams, Beverly Hills, 1956, Foto: Julius Shulman
Residence that resembles a very small forest
Junya Ishigami
Light Studies
Steven Holl
WDR-Funkhaus
Peter Friedrich Schneider, Köln, 1948
WDR-Funkhaus
Peter Friedrich Schneider, Köln, 1948
Österreichische Nationalbank Linz
Erich Boltenstein, Eugen Wachberger, Linz, Lucca Chmel (1953)
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
Das eigene Haus
Karl Schwanzer, Wien, 1962, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (1995)
Volksgarten-Café
Oswald Haerdtl, Wien, 1950, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (2003)
Bourse du Travail Calais
Foto: Candila Höfer (2001)
Barragan House
Luis Barragan, Mexico City, Mexico, 1948
Midtown-Manhattan
Foto: Andreas Feininger
Villa Katsura, Steinweg
Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., 1954, Foto: Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Evangelische Kirch Simmering
Roland Rainer, Wien, 1963, Foto: Lucca Chmel
Small Images
Junya Ishigami, 2008
Intuition is a very powerful thing — more powerful than intellect, in my opinion.
Steve Jobs
Still aus Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren, 1943
Lichtung
Thomas Demand, 2003
Ocean Swimming Pool
St. Malo, France
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals
Atelier Zumthor
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