Atmosphäre
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
Auch der Schatten ist eine Behausung.
Gaston Bachelard
Room in Brooklyn
Edward Hopper, 1932
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
Devendra Banhart | photographed by Lauren Dukoff for her book “Family”
Dorf in der Sierra del Tigre
Luis Barragán, FATLB
Entwurf für die Bibliothek Royale de Paris
Ètienne Louis Boullée, 1784
The American Restaurant in Kansas City in 1974
Warren Platner
Prinzess Kindermoden
Anton Potyka, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1951)
Galvez House
Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2002)
Südbahnhotel
Semmering, Österreich, Margherita Spiluttini (1991)
Rain
Villa Katsura
Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Indoor Garden
Indoor Garden
Workspace
Wiener Staatsoper (Wiederaufbau)
Erich Boltenstern, Wien, nach 1945, Foto: Lucca Chmel
The Monastery of Sainte-Marie de La Tourette
Foto: Hélène Binet
Performance still from Moving Target
Diller&Scofidio, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1996
Foto: Hélène Binet
Wrapped Coast
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Australia, 1968–69
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
Volksgarten-Café
Oswald Haerdtl, Wien, 1950, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (2003)
Fingerle Haus
Christoph Mayr Aichner, Klausen, Südtirol, 2005, Foto: Walter Niemeyer
Pennsylvania Station
1930
Pennsylvania Station
1930
Acropolis Paths
Dimitris Pikionis, Athen, 1957
Acropolis Paths
Dimitris Pikionis, Athen, 1957
Acropolis Paths
Dimitris Pikionis, Athen, 1957
Schindler House
Foto: Candila Höfer (2000)
Terasse
Thomas Demand, 1998
Upper Lawn Pavilion
Alison and Peter Smithson, West Tisbury, England, 1962
Philippe Petit balances as he walks between the World Trade Center
Augustinerkirche
Henke&Schreieck, Wien, 2003, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini