Poetic-choice-of-a-word, the hightlight of the book! You will discover how poetic he talks about architecture. What he means by the sound of a space is actually how the interiors of the building. You can combine different materials in a building, and there’s a certain point where you’ll find they’re too far away from each other to react, and there’s a point too where they’re too close together and that kills them.” “There’s a critical proximity between materials and its weight. The way he talks about the joy he got when he discovered how mysterious the way materials work in a building, the more I want to do it myself, getting deeper in the materials knowledge. Now this chapter is important! At least for me – the fact that I know for sure my weakness after all the time studying and doing architecture works – materials knowledge! Then Zumthor talk about it simply, easily and voila that’s how it works.Giving an example about how stone can be done by so many different methods and will give so many different outcomes, he explains that there are a thousand different possibilities in one material alone. “.the first and the greatest secret of architecture, that it collects different things in the world, different materials, and combines them to create a space like this.” So when we build something, many materials will present themself in the body of the building. This is a very short chapter where he explains architecture as an anatomy of the body, literally, like our own body.
Now I begin to read all the answers one by one. “What do we mean when we speak of architecture quality?” and he gives a simple answer like this, “ Quality architecture to me is when a building manages to move me.” that absolutely leads to another question, “Can I achieve that – as an architect – an atmosphere like that, its intensity, its mood. These 9 short chapters are the answers of a question he throws at the opening of the book. It’s divided into 9 short chapters with 3 more appendix. This book is reprinted from the lecture delivered by Zumthor on 1 June 2013 on the occasion of a Festival of Literature and Music in Germany. It’s a book of Peter Zumthor, a Swiss Architect, titled Atmospheres. It’s not too long, not too complicated and not just talking about someone’s works like reading a portfolio.
Last week, I just finished a book of architecture that (actually) nice and easy to read.
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