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
Prinzess Kindermoden
Anton Potyka, Wien, Foto: Lucca Chmel (1951)
Row house – small environments around
Junya Ishigami
Foto: Julius Shulman
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
The Weather Project
Olafur Eliasson, Tate Modern, London, 2003
Augustinerkirche
Henke&Schreieck, Wien, 2003, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
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
»The Barn« Home and studio of A. Quincy Jones
California, 1950
Cloudscape
Tetsuo Kondo, Biennale Venedig, 2010
Cloudscape
Tetsuo Kondo, Biennale Venedig, 2010
Cloudscape
Tetsuo Kondo, Biennale Venedig, 2010
Seattle Central Library Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus
Seattle, 2004
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
Dominus Weingut
Herzog & de Meuron, Napa Valley, Kalifornien, 1997, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
Barragan House
Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2002)
Rain
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Candila Höfer (1999)
Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig
Foto: Candila Höfer (1997)
Südbahnhotel
Semmering, Österreich, Margherita Spiluttini (1991)
Le Mistral
Charles Harbutt, Aboard Le Mistral, France, 1975
At the turn of the millennium, the great challenge for architects is the re-sensualisation, re-mythologisation and re-poetisation of the human domicile.
Juhani Pallasmaa
Kolumba Art Museum
Peter Zumthor, Köln, 2007
Kolumba Art Museum
Peter Zumthor, Köln, 2007
Garden pavilion at the architectural biennial
Kersten Geers David Van Severen & Bas Princen, Venice, 2010
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
Salzburger Festspiele – Ödipus Rex
CoopHimmelblau, 1994, Margherita Spiluttini
Lunch with Charlotte Gainsbourg
Woodland Cementary
Foto: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2001)
Ocean Swimming Pool
St. Malo, France
The American West
Ansel Adams
The American West
Ansel Adams
The American West
Ansel Adams
All rooms are passages of light.
Yoko Ono in: The Other Rooms