Jérôme Dreyfuss and Isabel Marant’s rustic cabin on the Loing River in Fountainebleau, France
        
        
          
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          BNF Paris
        
        
          Foto: Candila Höfer (1998)
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          Peter Zumthor in his studio
        
        
          
        
      
     
    
      All rooms are passages of light.
      Yoko Ono in: The Other Rooms
     
    
      
      
        
          Ricola Europe Factory and Storage Building
        
        
          Herzog & de Meuron, Mulhouse, France, 1993
        
      
     
    
      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
     
    
      
      
        
          Fingerle Haus
        
        
          Christoph Mayr Aichner, Klausen, Südtirol, 2005, Foto: Walter Niemeyer
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          Case Study House #8, Eames House
        
        
          Charles & Ray Eames, 1950, Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades, Foto: Julius Shulman (1958)
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          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
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          Still aus Meshes of the Afternoon
        
        
           Maya Deren, 1943
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          Moriyama House
        
        
          Sanaa, Ohta-ku, Tokio, Japan, 2002
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          Gerätestadl
        
        
          Bernhard Fuchs, Damreith, 2010
        
      
     
    
      Der Begriff der Atmosphäre stört den Architektur-Diskurs – er verfolgt diejenigen, die versuchen, ihm zu entkommen, und entgeht denjenigen, die ihm hinterherjagen.
      Siegfrid Giedion in: Raum, Zeit, Architektur
     
    
      
      
        
          Ebelin Bucherius House
        
        
          Richard Neutra, Tessin, Schweiz, 1966, Foto: Martin Hesse
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          Woodland Chapel
        
        
           Hiroshi Sugimoto (2001)
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          Atelierhaus
        
        
          Roland Rainer, St.Margarethen, Österreich, 2002, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
        
      
     
    
      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
     
    
      
      
        
          On the Flathead River near Glacier National Park, Montana
        
        
          
        
      
     
    
      Atmosphere is my style.
      J. M. W. Turner zu John Ruskin
     
    
      
      
        
          Midtown-Manhattan
        
        
          Foto: Andreas Feininger
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          Seagrams interior
        
        
          Mies van der Rohe, New York City, 1958, Foto: Ezra Stoller
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          Institute of Technology
        
        
          Junya Ishigami,  Kanagawa, Japan,  2009, Foto: Iwan Baan
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          Institute of Technology
        
        
          Junya Ishigami,  Kanagawa, Japan,  2009, Foto: Iwan Baan
        
      
     
    
      What you see depends on where you stand.
      C.S. Lewis
     
    
      
      
        
          House A
        
        
          Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2006, Foto: Walter Niedermayr
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          House A
        
        
          Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2006, Foto: Walter Niedermayr
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          House A
        
        
          Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2006, Foto: Walter Niedermayr
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          House A
        
        
          Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2006, Foto: Walter Niedermayr
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          House A
        
        
          Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2006, Foto: Walter Niedermayr
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          House A
        
        
          Sanaa, Tokio, Japan, 2006, Foto: Walter Niedermayr
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals, Blockstudien »Steinbruchbilder« Felsblöcke stehen im Wasser
        
        
          Peter Zumthor
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          Augustinerkirche
        
        
          Henke&Schreieck, Wien, 2003, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          Hauptschule Paznaun
        
        
          Noldin&Noldin, Kappl, Österreich, 2004, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          Hof
        
        
          Bernhard Fuchs, Kepling, 2005
        
      
     
    
      
      
        
          Das eigene Haus
        
        
          Karl Schwanzer, Wien, 1962, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (1995)