Atmosphäre
Barragan House
Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2002)
Woodland Chapel
Hiroshi Sugimoto (2001)
Villa Katusra, Steinweg
Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., Foto: Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Silvertop
John Lautner, Los Angeles, 1980, Foto: Julius Shulman
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
And summer isn’t a time. It’s a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
Terry Pratchett
Ricola Europe Factory and Storage Building
Herzog & de Meuron, Mulhouse, France, 1993
Performance still from Moving Target
Diller&Scofidio, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1996
Bourse du Travail Calais
Foto: Candila Höfer (2001)
Cloudscape
Tetsuo Kondo, Biennale Venedig, 2010
Cloudscape
Tetsuo Kondo, Biennale Venedig, 2010
Cloudscape
Tetsuo Kondo, Biennale Venedig, 2010
Unité d'habitation
Le Corbusier, Marseille, 1952
Unité d'habitation
Le Corbusier, Marseille, 1952
The Monastery of Sainte-Marie de La Tourette
Foto: Hélène Binet
Foto: unbekannt
Blur Building
Diller & Scofidio, Schweizer Expo, 2002
Blur Building
Diller & Scofidio, Schweizer Expo, 2002
Acropolis Paths
Dimitris Pikionis, Athen, 1957
Acropolis Paths
Dimitris Pikionis, Athen, 1957
Acropolis Paths
Dimitris Pikionis, Athen, 1957
Dominus Weingut
Herzog & de Meuron, Napa Valley, Kalifornien, 1997, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals, Blockstudien »Steinbruchbilder« Felsblöcke stehen im Wasser
Peter Zumthor
Sainte-Marie de la Tourette
Le Corbusier, Éveux bei Lyon, 1960, Foto: Hélèn Binte
Sainte-Marie de la Tourette
Le Corbusier, Éveux bei Lyon, 1960, Foto: Hélèn Binte
Wrapped Coast
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Australia, 1968–69
Paris
Paris (Grand Palais)
Alécio Andrade, 1975
Upper Lawn Pavilion
Alison and Peter Smithson, West Tisbury, England, 1962
Foto: Robert Adams
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
Haruki Murakami
Laboe
Foto: Boris Becker (1996)
BNF Paris
Foto: Candila Höfer (1998)
Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig
Foto: Candila Höfer (1997)
Case Study House #8, Eames House
Charles & Ray Eames, 1950, Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades, Foto: Julius Shulman (1958)
Südbahnhotel
Semmering, Österreich, Margherita Spiluttini (1991)
Row house – small environments around
Junya Ishigami
Foto: Robert Adams