In order to design a building with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction. This book, whose first edition has been out of print for years, has been expanded to include three new essays: Does Beauty Have a Form? The Magic of the Real, and Light in the Landscape. Not only has the book ...
Therme Vals, the spa complex built in the Swiss Alps by celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, became an icon of contemporary architecture soon after its opening in 1996. Inspired by the spa's majestic surroundings, Zumthor built the structure on the sharp grade of an Alpine mountain slope with grass-topped roofs to mimic Swiss meadows, captured here ...
What 'really constitutes an architectural atmosphere', Peter Zumthor says, is 'this singular density and mood, this feeling of presence, well-being, harmony, beauty ...under whose spell I experience what I otherwise would not experience in precisely this way'. Zumthor's passion is the creation of buildings that produce this kind of effect, but how ...
Was Aeine architektonische AtmosphAre wirklich ausmachtA, sagt Peter Zumthor, ist Adiese einmalige Dichte und Stimmung, dieses GefA1/4hl von Gegenwart, Wohlbefinden, Stimmigkeit, SchAnheit, ... in deren Bann ich etwas erlebe und erfahre, was ich in dieser QualitAt sonst nicht erleben wA1/4rde.A Seine Leidenschaft gilt der Erschaffung von GebAuden ...
This title is intended as an accompaniment to Peter Zumthor's Pavilion. It aims to provide answers to questions that visitors to the building may have, and looks at the Swiss architecture of the building, from its many functions to its structure.
Si la (TM)on attend de la (TM)architecture qua (TM)elle soit en relation sensuelle avec la vie, il faut que la rA(c)flexion aille bien au-delA de la forme et de la construction. Cet ouvrage, dont la premiA]re A(c)dition est A(c)puisA(c)e depuis des annA(c)es, a A(c)tA(c) enrichi de trois nouveaux essais: "La beautA(c) a-t-elle une forme ?," "La ...
This title is intended as an accompaniment to Peter Zumthor's Pavilion. It aims to provide answers to questions that visitors to the building may have, and looks at the Swiss architecture of the building, from its many functions to its structure.
Eine Architektur, die in einer sinnlichen Verbindung zum Leben stehen soll, erfordert ein Denken, das A1/4ber Form und Konstruktion weit hinausgeht. Dieses Buch, dessen erste Auflage seit Jahren vergriffen ist, wurde nun um drei neue Essays ergAnzt: AHat SchAnheit eine Form?A, ADie Magie des RealenA und ADas Licht in der LandschaftA. Das Buch ...
This volume presents the most recent work of an architect who has "at last achieved cult status" (Stuttgarter Zeitung) with his exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art -- and whose projects have garnered international attention and awards. During daytime Zumthor's new Kunsthaus in Bregenz gives the impression of a semi-transparent glass body, and ...
The first title in the AA series focusing on "Exemplary Projects", this book features the work of Swiss architect, Peter Zumthor. It documents the making of a thermal bath in the alpine village of Vals. The design for the bath was guided by the ideas of building with stone, building into the mountain and being beside the mountain. The interior ...
Peter Zumthor is possibly the most innovative European architect working today. His projects inspire enthusiasm with their exactitude, their poetry, and their radically independent aesthetics and vocabulary of form. This publication, exquisitely designed to the architect's exacting standards, is the first complete survey of Zumthor's oeuvre. As ...
A Ce qui crA(c)e en rA(c)alitA(c) une atmosphA]re architectonique, dit Peter Zumthor, ca (TM)est cette densitA(c) et cette atmosphA]re uniques, ce sentiment de prA(c)sence, de bien-Aatre, de cohA(c)rence, de beautA(c), qui ma (TM)envoAtent et me font vivre et expA(c)rimenter ce que je na (TM)aurais pas vA(c)cu autrement. A La (TM)architecte met ...
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