Atmosphäre

Atmosphere is my style.

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, (…)

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.

Architektur erzeugt Stimmungen. Die Architekten besitzen damit ein Instrument, Menschen glücklich zu machen.

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.

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.