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Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor
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
Louis Kahn: The Space of Ideas - The Architectural Review
2012年10月23日 · 2/14 The National Assembly in Dhaka, Bangladesh, employs symbolic geometries to evoke the origins of architecture and institutions. Diverse sources of inspiration from Classical antiquity to Buddhist stupas are fused and transformed to express powerful notions of modernity and nationhood in an emerging post-colonial state
Kowloon Walled City: Surreal photographs of day-to-day life …
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.
SANAA | Architects | Architectural Review
Explore key works and seminal texts by Pritzker Prize winner Japanese architecture firm SANAA, founded by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, from Grace Farms to the Rolex Learning Centre in Switzerland to the Serpentine Pavilion in London.
Reyner Banham (1922 -1988) - The Architectural Review
2019年6月4日 · He was born in Norwich in 1922. His father was a gas fitter. Known as Peter to his friends, Reyner Banham’s first job was as an engineering apprentice at Bristol Aircraft during the Second World War, but he moved on to study at …
Essays - The Architectural Review
The AR looks beyond isolated buildings, commissioning in-depth theoretical essays that engage with the wider social, cultural and political context architecture sits in, as well as the impact and potential of architectural cultures and practices
Enric Miralles (1955–2000) - The Architectural Review
2021年7月26日 · Evolutions, naturally, are also the product of time. In his 1995 book Studies in Tectonic Culture, Kenneth Frampton wrote that after completing the Igualada cemetery and Olympic archery range, the work of Miralles and Pinós ‘tends to degenerate into structural exhibitionism as it flies only too free of the ground to aggregate into …
The History of Architecture in Eleven Arches
2014年12月19日 · The Arch: does any other fragment present a feat of structural engineering with such seemingly effortless grace? The Mesopotamians needed them for lack of stone or wood; the Romans needed them to dramatically span huge distances and to celebrate their victories; late medieval masons needed them to make their Gothic masterworks as …
Architecture Becomes Music - The Architectural Review
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.