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Schloss Schönbrunn, Ruine
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
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
Dominus Weingut Herzog & de Meuron, Napa Valley, Kalifornien, 1997, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
New York Public Library
New York Public Library Foto: Candila Höfer (1999)
Ca'Dolfin Venezia
Ca'Dolfin Venezia Foto: Candila Höfer 2003
Moore House
Moore House Richard Neutra, Ojai, California, 1952, Foto: Julius Shulman
Booth House
Booth House Smith and Williams, Beverly Hills, 1956, Foto: Julius Shulman
Residence that resembles a very small forest
Residence that resembles a very small forest Junya Ishigami
Light Studies
Light Studies Steven Holl
WDR-Funkhaus
WDR-Funkhaus Peter Friedrich Schneider, Köln, 1948
WDR-Funkhaus
WDR-Funkhaus Peter Friedrich Schneider, Köln, 1948
Österreichische Nationalbank Linz
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
Das eigene Haus Karl Schwanzer, Wien, 1962, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (1995)
Volksgarten-Café
Volksgarten-Café Oswald Haerdtl, Wien, 1950, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (2003)
Bourse du Travail Calais
Bourse du Travail Calais Foto: Candila Höfer (2001)
Barragan House
Barragan House Luis Barragan, Mexico City, Mexico, 1948
Midtown-Manhattan
Midtown-Manhattan Foto: Andreas Feininger
Villa Katsura, Steinweg
Villa Katsura, Steinweg Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., 1954, Foto: Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Evangelische Kirch Simmering
Evangelische Kirch Simmering Roland Rainer, Wien, 1963, Foto: Lucca Chmel
Small Images
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
Still aus Meshes of the Afternoon Maya Deren, 1943
Lichtung
Lichtung Thomas Demand, 2003
Ocean Swimming Pool
Ocean Swimming Pool St. Malo, France
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals Atelier Zumthor
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