Thinking Architecture
by Peter Zumthor
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Author: Peter ZumthorEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-06-01
ISBN: 3764374977
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
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Book Review: The Essential and the Real
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is an excellent intorduction to Zumthor's architecture. This book makes us think about what is essential in architecture again. We think we knew and we think we understood. But, reading this book, I realized how much I have forgotten and how important it is to remind ourselves of the significant and yet, simple truth in architecture he describes. For me, his view on the "real" presence of architecture was very appealing. In seeking 'factual truth' in architecture, Zumthor explains what matters to him in his consideration of "specific" contexts and issues. This book gives us some clue about why his buildings exude such extraordinary aura and how they were conceived. It is relatively short but, very powerful. It's highly recommended. Peter Zumthor, one of the real masters in architecture today talks about his desire to design a building that takes on its own life afterwards. To him, the real presence of architecture doesn't require any rhetoric or any further explanation. His architecture is not about form-making and certainly doesn't stem from digital processes. It is not about rhetorical/ critical diagrams as a point of departure. It is not necessarily about sustainability. His architecture doesn't seek to be showy and spectacular. It seeks to "belong", belong to the context, site, and surroundings. Creating the new but only in a way that enhances the existing. From another perspective, it is about "place-making": making a place/ spatial conditions that become part of our physical presence. His pursuit of the real and the essential seems solidly grounded in modernism. And yet, he is capable of going beyond the capacity of modernist architecture the way we are familiar with. It has something to do with his focus on "atmosphere"-making. To him, making spaces always comes with certain concept of atmosphere. He explains his understanding of "atmosphere" in architecture in another book. Zumthor may be one of the pre-eminent architects of the "New Modern", which differs from post-modern.
Summary of Thinking Architecture
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. In these essays Peter Zumthor expresses his motivation in designing buildings, which speak to our emotions and understanding in so many ways, and possess a powerful and unmistakable presence and personality.
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. It has been freshly illustrated throughout with new color photographs of Zumthor s new home and studio in Haldenstein, taken specially for this edition by Laura Padgett, and received a new typography by Hannele Grönlund.
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