Ballroom House at Pampulha
Oscar Niemeyer, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1943, Foto: Pedro Kok
Foto: Coco Young
Villa Katsura
Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Aber alle diese Feinheiten, bestimmt, die Dauer des Bauwerks zu sichern, waren eine Kleinigkeit im Verhältnis zu denen, die er gebrauchte, wenn es sich darum handelte, die Erregungen und Schwingungen vorzubereiten, die in der Seele des künftigen Betrachters seines Werkes entstehen sollten.
Paul Valéry
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals, Therme Rudash
Budapest, Atelier Zumthor
Joseph Eichler Company
one of over 11,000 homes, California, 1950–1974
Villa Katsura, Gartentür hinter dem Eingang
Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., Foto: Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Philippe Petit balances as he walks between the World Trade Center
Residence that resembles a very small forest
Junya Ishigami
And summer isn’t a time. It’s a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
Terry Pratchett
Ricola Europe Factory and Storage Building
Herzog & de Meuron, Mulhouse, France, 1993
Heustadl
Bernhard Fuchs, Neuschlag, 2009
Villa Katsura, Steinweg
Kyoto, Japan, 17. Jhdt., 1954, Foto: Ishimoto Yasuhiro (1954)
Luis Barragán im Innenhof der Acequia in der Alhambra
Granada, Spanien, 1924
DHFK Leipzig
Foto: Candila Höfer (1991)
Augustinerkirche
Henke&Schreieck, Wien, 2003, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini
REHAB Basel
Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, 2002, Foto: Margherita Spiluttini (2003)
Seagrams interior
Mies van der Rohe, New York City, 1958, Foto: Ezra Stoller
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
Foto: Robert Adams
Moore House
Richard Neutra, Ojai, California, 1952, Foto: Julius Shulman
Moriyama House
Sanaa, Ohta-ku, Tokio, Japan, 2002
Erste Bilder zur Therme Vals, Albigna-Staumauer, Atelier Zumthor
Christian Kerez
Toter Raum
Gregor Schneider, 1989
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon
Peter Zumthor, London, 2011
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon
Peter Zumthor, London, 2011
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon
Peter Zumthor, London, 2011
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon
Peter Zumthor, London, 2011
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon
Peter Zumthor, London, 2011
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon
Peter Zumthor, London, 2011
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon
Peter Zumthor, London, 2011
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
Foto: Roloff Beny
Weese Residence
Harry Weese, Barrington, Illinois, 1958, Foto: Francis Miller
Blur Building
Diller & Scofidio, Schweizer Expo, 2002
Blur Building
Diller & Scofidio, Schweizer Expo, 2002