- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel; 1 edition (July 28 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 3764360992
- ISBN-13: 978-3764360993
- Product Dimensions: 30.5 x 24.8 x 3.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 2.3 Kg
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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.
This publication, exquisitely designed to the architect's exacting standards, is the first complete survey of Zumthor's oeuvre. As exceptional as the architect's work itself, the book investigates eight realized buildings in detail, including the Home for the Elderly in Chur, the Gugalun House in Safiental, the Art Museum in Bregenz, Austria, and his best-known work, the Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland. Each of these projects is extensively illustrated with duotone photographs by British architectural photographer Helene Binet and is accompanied by plans as well as commentary written, by Zumthor himself. This title also includes a list of projects, a biography of the architect, and an introduction by Zumthor.
"The Swiss architect Zumthor has over the last years completed a series of built works that have captivated us with their object simplicity and their material sophistication. More than anyone he has reinforced the physical power of architecture. Avoiding rhetorical gesture he has managed to complete a series of buildings that are joyful in their manifestation of form, material, and construction.... While fashionable minimalism achieves its results by exclusion, Zumthor's work is informed by complex understanding and the working-through of problems.... More than any other contemporary architect Peter Zumthor has persisted in maintaining architecture as a constructive craft. Through his built work he shows us how architecture can be invested with idea, how ideadoes not have to conspire with ideology. He demonstrates that through a multiple and layered process architecture can have intent without rhetoric, purpose without dogma, gravity and light". -- David Chipperfield, AA Files --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A Jewel of a Book, Mar 5 2006
By J. Balmer - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Peter Zumthor Works: Buildings and Projects 1979-1997 (Hardcover)
Because the Swiss architect has such a loyal following among architects around the world, and because Zumthor refuses to allow his books go into extra printings, this jewel of a book documenting a half dozen of Zumthor's project is much coveted by collectors. The photographs are sumptuously lit, and beautifully printed.
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Beautifully presented book of evocative photos of work., July 29 1998
By atelier@lynx.bc.ca - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Peter Zumthor Works: Buildings and Projects 1979-1997 (Hardcover)
This is a very handsome book of mainly black and white photos of the Swiss modernist's work. There are some small color photos but I would have preferred to have seen more. The Architectural Review did a recent spread on the Baths and the blue of the stone used was very evocative. Still this is a beautiful book on a very impressive architect.
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