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
Ballroom House at Pampulha
Oscar Niemeyer, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1943, Foto: Pedro Kok
Still aus Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren, 1943
Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
Foto: Candila Höfer (2001)
Joseph Eichler Company
one of over 11,000 homes, California, 1950–1974
Luis Barragán im Innenhof der Acequia in der Alhambra
Granada, Spanien, 1924
Room in Brooklyn
Edward Hopper, 1932
Swan Yard ch 5
Foto: Hélène Binet
Swan Yard ch 5
Foto: Hélène Binet
Swan Yard ch 5
Foto: Hélène Binet
Swan Yard ch 5
Foto: Hélène Binet
Swan Yard ch 5
Foto: Hélène Binet
Café Prückl
Oswald Haerdtl, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1955)
Ise Gropius relaxing on the second floor terrace of the Walter Gropius House
Walter Gropius, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1938, Foto: Robert Damora (1948)
Grand Central Station
New York City, 1941
One of our interests is how to create a landscape for people.
Sanaa
REHAB Basel
Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, 2002, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (2003)
Dominus Weingut
Herzog & de Meuron, Napa Valley, Kalifornien, 1997, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
Entwurf für die Bibliothek Royale de Paris
Ètienne Louis Boullée, 1784
Schindler House
Foto: Candila Höfer (2000)
Terasse
Thomas Demand, 1998
Kimbell Art Museum
Louis Kahn, Fort Worth, Texas, 1972
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Paris
Foto: Candila Höfer (1997)
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals, Therme Rudash
Budapest, Atelier Zumthor
Galvez House
Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2002)
Lewin House
Richard Neutra, Santa Monica, Kalifornien, 1938
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
WDR-Funkhaus
Peter Friedrich Schneider, Köln, 1948
WDR-Funkhaus
Peter Friedrich Schneider, Köln, 1948
Südbahnhotel
Semmering, Österreich, Margherita Spiluttini (1991)
Small Images
Junya Ishigami, 2008
Le Mistral
Charles Harbutt, Aboard Le Mistral, France, 1975
Atelier
1897, Foto: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Ebelin Bucherius House
Richard Neutra, Tessin, Schweiz, 1966, Foto: Martin Hesse
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals, Blockstudien »Steinbruchbilder« Felsblöcke stehen im Wasser
Peter Zumthor