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
Gerätestadl
Bernhard Fuchs, Damreith, 2010
Cobenzl
Anton Potyka, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1951)
Cobenzl
Anton Potyka, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1951)
Innenhof des Hauses Gálvez
Luis Barragán, Chimalistac, Mexiko-Stadt, 1955, Foto: Alberto Moreno Gúzman
Every experience is unrepeatable.
Italo Calvino
Schindler House
Foto: Candila Höfer (2000)
The modern Room
Interior Design by Emila Sada + Giorgio Madini Moretti, 1967
Dorf in der Sierra del Tigre
Luis Barragán, FATLB
Villa Planchart
Gio Ponti, Caracas, Venezuela, 1956
Villa Planchart
Gio Ponti, Caracas, Venezuela, 1956
Grand Central Station
New York City, 1941
Moriyama House Model
Sanaa, Ohta-ku, Tokio, Japan, 2002
Peter Zumthor in his studio
On the Flathead River near Glacier National Park, Montana
Salzburger Festspiele – Ödipus Rex
CoopHimmelblau, 1994, Margherita Spiluttini
Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
Foto: Candila Höfer (2001)
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
Deutsche Botschaft
Georg Lippert, Rudolf Gutbrod, Wien, Lucca Chmel (1965)
Deutsche Botschaft
Georg Lippert, Rudolf Gutbrod, Wien, Lucca Chmel (1965)
Rosen Residence
Craig Ellwood, West Los Angeles, 1964
Kimbell Art Museum
Louis Kahn, Fort Worth, Texas, 1972
Philippe Petit balances as he walks between the World Trade Center
The Monastery of Sainte-Marie de La Tourette
Foto: Hélène Binet
Architektur erzeugt Stimmungen. Die Architekten besitzen damit ein Instrument, Menschen glücklich zu machen.
Karl Schwanzer
Strandbad Gänsehäufel
Max Fellerer und Eugen Wörle, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1950)
Tlalpan Chapel
Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2002)
Balletzentrum Hamburg
Foto: Candila Höfer (2001)
Barragan House
Luis Barragan, Mexico City, Mexico, 1948
Indoor Garden
Indoor Garden
Lichtung
Thomas Demand, 2003
DDSG Schiffsanlegestelle
Eugen Wachberger, Linz, Lucca Chmel (1958)
DDSG Schiffsanlegestelle
Eugen Wachberger, Linz, Lucca Chmel (1958)
DDSG Schiffsanlegestelle
Eugen Wachberger, Linz, Lucca Chmel (1958)
Sammlung Goetz
Herzog & de Meuron, München, 1991–92