The Architecture Thread

[A Y]

A fascinating interview with Peter Zumthor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/ma...or-t.html?_r=1

"It's all talk these days," he complained in the car. "Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier came from a tradition in which architects still knew how things were made, how to make things well. We should force universities to train carpenters and woodworkers and leather workers. Architects all want to be philosophers or artists now. I'm lucky to have had my education, because in the States, especially, you've lost contact with the real business of building."

--Andre

 

[venessian]

Originally Posted by A Y

A fascinating interview with Peter Zumthor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/ma...or-t.html?_r=1



--Andre

Nice, thanks.
A little heavy on the "rapt", "brooding", etc. stuff, but the content on the part of Zumthor himself is good, as always.

 

[StephenHero]

Fumihiko Maki
Kaze-no-Oka Crematorium
Nataksu, Japan.

 

[StephenHero]

Originally Posted by A Y

A fascinating interview with Peter Zumthor:


1. I can't believe he's building a house for Tobey Maguire.

2. I can't believe Tobey Maguire asked him for a ******* basketball court.

 

[mordecai]

Do you know if he's still adding a building to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art? I haven't heard anything new about it for over a year. Renzo Piano's contribution is boring, and is slip-cased in the same awful cladding as the Pereira part of the campus (but is still better than those buildings).

 

[StephenHero]

He is. There are a couple casual concepts from Zumthor in the article about it. "Galleries in trees" and "gold building."Who knows if it comes to fruition. There are only three projects I know he's working on: Tobey's crib, LACMA, and a housing project for Alain de Botton's Living Architecture project, which is a collective project with five vacation houses from a few different designers. These are the only images I've seen of Zumthor's design, which is apparently based on cave dwelling.

 

[mordecai]

Alain de Botton? Really?

 

[StephenHero]

Make that four projects. He designed this memorial for persecuted witches with Louise Bourgeois in Norway. It will be done sometime this year.

 

[mordecai]

Originally Posted by StephenHero

Make that four projects. He designed this memorial for persecuted witches with Louise Bourgeois in Norway. It will be done sometime this year.

Whoa. I had no idea. I wonder how her death affected it. Thanks for posting this, it's really cool.

 

[StephenHero]

Make that five projects. He's apparently working on the renovation of a flower factory in Holland.

 

[StephenHero]

Originally Posted by mordecai

Whoa. I had no idea. I wonder how her death affected it. Thanks for posting this, it's really cool.
The scale of that model looks deceptively modest. It's apparently a 400 foot long structure.

 

[amstokesdb9]

Originally Posted by StephenHero

Fumihiko Maki's Kaze-no-Oka Crematorium in Nataksu, Japan.




Wow, I know where to send my dead body now.

 

[StephenHero]

Originally Posted by amstokesdb9

Wow, I know where to send my dead body now.
Yeah. It's nice. I've been neck deep in crematory designs lately because I'm helping a firm work on a design scheme for one. I'm almost becoming excited to die.

 

[mordecai]

I remember thinking that Robert Venturi's design for his mother's house resembled a tomb, or mausoleum. Telling, perhaps.

 

[StephenHero]

Antonio Jiminez Torrecillas
Granary
Huescar, Spain
2011