A Feeling of History (Paperback)

Peter Zumthor

ISBN 10: 3858818054 / ISBN 13: 9783858818058

Verlag: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag, Zurich, 2021

Beschreibung

Paperback. While he was working to complete the Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in southern Norway in 2016, Swiss architect Peter Zumthor asked Norwegian architectural historian Mari Lending to engage in a dialogue about the project. In meandering, impressionistic style, and drawing on their favorite writers, such as Johann Peter Hebel, Stendhal, Nabokov, and T. S. Eliot, their exchanges explore how history, time, and temporalities reverberate across Zumthors oeuvre. Looking back, Zumthor ponders on how a feeling of history has informed his attempts at emotional reconstruction by means of building, from architectural interventions in dramatic landscapes to his design for the redevelopment of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which conceived the building on a suitably grand urban scale.This small, beautifully designed book records the conversation between Zumthor and Lending, accompanied by photographs taken by the renowned Swiss architectural photographer Helene Binet. The resulting book is a surprisingly revelatory view of one of the most interesting and restlessly creative architects of our era. Peter Zumthor in dialogue with Mari Lending explores how history, time and temporalities reverberates across his oeuvre, a feeling of history has informed his continuous attempts of emotional reconstruction by means of building. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783858818058

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Feeling of History (Paperback)
• Verlag: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag, Zurich
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3858818054
• ISBN-13: 9783858818058
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

While completing the Almannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in southern Norway in 2016, celebrated Swiss architect Peter Zumthor asked Norwegian scholar Mari Lending to engage in a dialogue about the project. Departing from the ways in which Zumthor's pavilions frame the barely visible traces of the industrial exploitation of zinc in the 1890s, the conversation took unexpected turns. In meandering, impressionistic style and drawing on Zumthor's favourite writers, such as Johann Peter Hebel, Stendhal, Vladimir Nabokov, and T.S. Eliot, their exchanges explore how history, time and temporalities reverberate across the famous architect's oeuvre. Looking back, Zumthor ponders on how a feeling of history has informed his continuous attempts of emotional reconstruction by means of building, from architectural interventions in dramatic landscapes to his design for the redevelopment of Los Angeles' LACMA on a grand urban scale. This small, beautifully designed new book records the conversation between Zumthor and Lending, illustrated with photographs by the renowned Swiss architectural photographer Helene Binet.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Zumthor works with his Atelier of around 30 people in Haldenstein, Switzerland. His best known buildings include the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Therme Vals, Museum Kolumba Koeln, and the Steilneset Memorial in Vardo. Mari Lending is a professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Her latest book is Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction (2017).