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Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor
网页1997年8月16日 · Resonant with an elemental materiality and full of myriad therapeutic delights, Peter Zumthor’s thermal baths at Vals are conceived as a cavernous, labyrinthine haven devoted to sensual pleasure
Tadao Ando (1941-) - The Architectural Review
网页2020年4月16日 · In his 1977 essay In Praise of Shadows, Junichiro Tanizaki wrote that ‘we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness, that one thing against another creates’.Tanizaki’s words closely resonate with the work of Tadao Ando, vividly expressed in the dramatic diagonal shadows and light of his formational Koshino House (1981), cast across the ...
Kowloon Walled City: Surreal photographs of day-to-day life …
网页2014年4月9日 · Part of the south elevation, illustrating in the narrowness of its buildings how the Walled City had evolved from a squatter settlement. Individual huts had been redeveloped over time, rising to four or five storeys in the 1950s, then up to nine storeys in the early 1960s and reaching a maximum of 17 storeys in the 1970s.
Rem Koolhaas (1944–) - The Architectural Review
网页2018年11月16日 · You must appear to be everywhere at once. If you can’t control the media’s perception of your work, then you should start your own publication or publishing house – for this, you need to cultivate close relationships with non-architectural designers.
Hassan Fathy (1900–1989) - The Architectural Review
网页2020年2月14日 · At the age of 78, in a key scene of the documentary movie Il ne suffit pas que Dieu soit avec les pauvres, Hassan Fathy was interviewed at his Ottoman-Mamluk flat, at the foot of the Cairo Citadel.Swathed in a brown cloak, he walked back and forth on the house’s rooftop with the ensemble of Cairo’s buildings and the dome and minarets of the Sultan Hassan Mosque behind him.
The mathematics of the Ideal Villa: Palladio and Le Corbusier …
网页Perhaps these were the dreams of Virgil. Freely interpreted, they have gathered round themselves, in the course of time, all those ideals of Roman virtue, excellence, Imperial splendour and decay, which make up the imaginative reconstruction of the ancient world.
Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) - The Architectural Review
网页2018年4月6日 · His rehabilitation coincided inevitably with the rise of Postmodernism. Arguably his most important champion in this was Robert Venturi, who included a number of Lutyens’ projects in his 1966 book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.Venturi’s ‘gentle-manifesto’ argued for the full range of spatial and formal effects available to architecture and against the reductive orthodoxy ...
Augustus Pugin (1812-1852) - The Architectural Review
网页2012年4月24日 · Biography. Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin 1812-1852. Education Christ’s Hospital, Newgate Taught to draw by his father. Key buildings Houses of Parliament, London (1844)
Architecture Becomes Music - The Architectural Review
网页2013年5月6日 · ‘All art’ Walter Pater famously observed in 1877, ‘constantly aspires towards the condition of music.’ Why the music envy? Because, the standard answer goes, in abstract music the form and content − or in its case the sound and sense − are one integrated thing.