Atmosphäre
Indoor Garden
Indoor Garden
Lichtung
Thomas Demand, 2003
Ballroom House at Pampulha
Oscar Niemeyer, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1943, Foto: Pedro Kok
A real architectural experience is not simply a series of retinal images; a building is encountered – it is approached, confronted, encountered, related to one’s body, moved about, utilised as a condition for other things, (…)
Steven Holl
The American Restaurant in Kansas City in 1974
Warren Platner
Brooklyn Bridge
Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2001)
Blur Building
Diller & Scofidio, Schweizer Expo, 2002
Blur Building
Diller & Scofidio, Schweizer Expo, 2002
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
Österreichische Nationalbank Linz
Erich Boltenstein, Eugen Wachberger, Linz, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1953)
Österreichische Nationalbank Linz
Erich Boltenstein, Eugen Wachberger, Linz, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1953)
Café Prückl
Oswald Haerdtl, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1955)
Seijo Apartments, model in section
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
Seijo Apartments, model in section
Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
Booth House
Smith and Williams, Beverly Hills, 1956, Foto: Julius Shulman
A Path in The Forest
Tetsuo Kondo Architects, Kadriorg Park, Tallinn, Estland, Foto: 2011
A Path in The Forest
Tetsuo Kondo Architects, Kadriorg Park, Tallinn, Estland, Foto: 2011
A Path in The Forest
Tetsuo Kondo Architects, Kadriorg Park, Tallinn, Estland, Foto: 2011
Villa Katsura
Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
BNF Paris
Foto: Candila Höfer (1998)
Barragan House
Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2002)
Moriyama House
Ruye Nishizawa, Kamata, Tokio, 2005
Kloster Actopan, die Außengalerie
Foto: Luis Barragán
Tlalpan Chapel
Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2002)
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
Fingerle Haus
Christoph Mayr Aichner, Klausen, Südtirol, 2005, Foto: Walter Niemeyer
Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig
Foto: Candila Höfer (1997)
Dorf in der Sierra del Tigre
Luis Barragán, FATLB
Gerätestadl
Bernhard Fuchs, Damreith, 2010
South Bay Drive-In
Hiroshi Sugimoto, 1993
Espresso Europe
Rudolf Vorderegger, Wien, Lucca Chmel (1952)
Ise Gropius relaxing on the second floor terrace of the Walter Gropius House
Walter Gropius, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1938, Foto: Robert Damora (1948)
Entwurf für die Bibliothek Royale de Paris
Ètienne Louis Boullée, 1784
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