Atmospheres

Author: Peter Zumthor
Publisher: Birkhaüser
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
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 can one actually set out to achieve it? In nine short, illustrated chapters framed as a process of self-observation, Peter Zumthor describes what he has on his mind as he sets about creating the atmosphere of his houses. Images of spaces and buildings that affect him are every bit as important as particular pieces of music or books that inspire him. From the composition and presence" of the materials to the handling of proportions and the effect of light, this poetics of architecture enables the reader to recapitulate what really matters in the process of house design.

Peter Zumthor, Works

Author: Peter Zumthor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783764360993
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
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.

A Feeling of History

Author: Peter Zumthor
Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess
ISBN: 9783858818058
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
While he was working to complete the Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in southern Norway in 2016, Swiss architect Peter Zumthor asked Norwegian architectural historian Mari Lending to engage in a dialogue about the project. In meandering, impressionistic style, and drawing on their favorite writers, such as Johann Peter Hebel, Stendhal, Nabokov, and T. S. Eliot, their exchanges explore how history, time, and temporalities reverberate across Zumthor's oeuvre. Looking back, Zumthor ponders on how a feeling of history has informed his attempts at emotional reconstruction by means of building, from architectural interventions in dramatic landscapes to his design for the redevelopment of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which conceived the building on a suitably grand urban scale. This small, beautifully designed book records the conversation between Zumthor and Lending, accompanied by photographs taken by the renowned Swiss architectural photographer H l ne Binet. The resulting book is a surprisingly revelatory view of one of the most interesting and restlessly creative architects of our era.

Three Concepts

Author: Peter Zumthor
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9783764357450
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description

Thinking Architecture

Author: Peter Zumthor
Publisher: Birkhauser
ISBN: 9783764374976
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
The Pritzker-winning architect offers insight into what motivates his design process, explaining how he creates environments that appeal to a visitor's heart and mind in different ways while instilling a sense of presence, in a third edition that has two additional essays including "Architecture and Landscape" and "The Leis Houses."

Peter Zumthor Therme Vals

Author: Sigrid Hauser
Publisher: Scheidegger Und Spiess Ag Verlag
ISBN: 9783858817044
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
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 in a series of sumptuous images. This is the only book-length study of this singular building. It features the architects own original sketches and plans for its design as well as striking photographs of the structure. Architectural scholar Sigrid Hauser contributes an essay drawing out the connections between the elemental nature of the spa and mythology, bathing, and purity. Annotations by Peter Zumthor on his design concept and the building process elucidate the structure's symbiotic relationship to its natural surroundings, revealing, for example, why he insisted on using locally quarried stone.

Wood Architecture

Author: Ruth Slavid
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 185669402X
Category : Architecture, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description
Timber is having a renaissance as an architectural material, as more architects come to understand its properties, and enjoy adding it to their repertoire of materials. With a growing crop of good new timber buildings, architects are coming to realise that this is no longer the sole preserve of the traditionalist, but a material that has an important role to play in the contemporary world. The book's introduction examines the ways in which a raw material of diminishing quality (but abundant quantity) can be 'stretched' to perform as it has never done before using new technology and careful detailing. The 40 case studies are devoted to some of the most interesting new wood projects from around the world. The projects are grouped in seven themed chapters. Featured architects from around the world include Steven Holl, Foster and Partners, Rural Studio, Renzo Piano and Shigeru Ban.

Klangkörperbuch

Author: Peter Zumthor
Publisher: Birkhauser
ISBN: 9783764363246
Category : Architecture, Modern
Languages : de
Pages : 0

Book Description
Peter Zumthor was selected to construct the Swiss Pavilion at the EXPO2000 in Hanover, and to this end, he created an unusual wood structure, the "Soundbodies" of Switzerland. Swiss architecture, music, the written word, fashion design and gastronomy are all drawn together to create a place to discover, to enjoy and to relax in.

Shelter for Roman Ruins I Peter Zumthor

Author: ArcDog
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781389476037
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Film stills of "Shelter for Roman Ruins I Peter Zumthor", a documentary film of Shelter for Roman Ruins in Chur, designed by Pritzker Prize winner Swiss architect Peter Zumthor in 1986.

Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland

Author: Paul Zumthor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804722001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
This engagingly written study presents a rich picture of a dynamic society that had torn itself away from the mediocrity of its past--a stagnant nation of peasants and fishermen--to pursue an overseas empire that led to great financial wealth and a highly sophisticated cultivation of the arts. This classic work first appeared in English translation in 1963.