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The new bullding sty istic and historical slgnificance a. Architecture ls ex rssumes che foca position and is itsell ts history begins. I l clicve that architecture today needs to reflect on the tasks and pos- Steps left behind il il r es which are inherent y its own. Archirecture is not a vehic e or a. My bllldinSs cry to answer the questions thrt emerge visual forms and atmospheres. Th s phrasc caughr nry atrefrlof. I ike rhe ider that be:tuty has , rid core. Will ams s suPPosed to have sn d.

And I n ,r. Lrrlir iLL l,L', i rrlf Lr, ilr! Ita o Calvlro te ls us in his lezionj omericdne about the ltalian poer Gi App led! He works out conceprs and structures and then less layers of meaning that overlap and interweave, and that chanSe as rrs rhem performed!

Can vasueness and openness be planned? L,il content in terms of exisr ng architecture. Bcd which surprised us. Consequently,l find that can Preconcelved images and stylistcaly Pre-fnbricated forma idioms are unde. The rwo archllects derive f. Handl e aLso speaks, in this contexr, offideLlty to things. He would Personally,I stlll believe in the self sufficient.

Pp ementary colorlng. SriLcments of dr s kifd he p me to come to terms w th rhe dissatisfac- Yet how are we to ach eve this wholeness ln arch tecture at atime when ror otlen experence when lcontemPate recent architecture.

Peter Handke wrtes of his endeavors to make rexts and descriPtions il,. Good irchire. L, I I belicvc thit if rrtisl c piocesscs st iv. Jrc r l.. Irri,LIi ,! Say that it is a c.! Pinl ye lows. Too mlch as they ire! This ls the begnning of che poem 8olguer ofRoses in Sunlight by rhe American poe! Calvno spaces is based on his dwe ling ln! Reality was rhe goal to which Stevens :spired. He pointed outthat the concrere buidlng assignmenr relar ng to che acr or slate of dwell- to porcray a shell playing an accordlof is to invent, nor discover.

And so ng that incerests me nnd Lrpon which I wish to concenrrate my magi- it crops up once again, rhis fundamental thought that I seem to find in narive facuhies. And this is no rfd spnces come ln.

There arc no ldeas except in things. One key to che answer lies, I believe, in che words pla. I do not work towards archi- tecturefrom a theoretically defined point ofdeparture. And when I reflecton whether lhave since added new imag-. Plnc6s I llvo and work in Graub0nden, in a farminSvillage surrounded by moun- tnlni.

I sometimes wonder whether this has influenced my work, and tlrc thoutht that it probably has is nor unpleasanr. I carry with ,,,c irs nner vislons of sPeclfic moods and q! At other! I need them, for 11 s only when I confront and comPare the essentials of different P ac- ,,.. And when we recalled b! And whereas we knew almost at speal s of the world as a whole.

Our artempt to generalize seemed to rob the individual build- the world and the emanations of contemporary life. I considered the proiect interesting in many ways.

I mentioned severaL of its specific qualities 2 The main rooms of the sma I mountain hotel overlooked the va ley and added that some time previously I had laid aslde my positive prej! And I had come to the conclus on that, r lic corridor and connected by a doorThe smaller of them looked like a as a whole,l did not rea ly like it.

We discussed the possible reasons for , ,rrforrable p ace in which to sit and read, and the larger one, with five my impression and came up wlth a few details wthout arriving at a val- w. On ld conclusion.

And then one of rhe younger members of the group, a l lir f,, rr-lloor chere were bedrooms wich deep,shady wooden balconies, talented and usually rationa ly minded arch tect, said:"lt is an lnterest- ,ri rhc sccond floor mo e bcdrooms open ng onto terraces. The rrou- I wi,Lr l cnioy lookin8 irt rhc open sky ffom the upper rooms,l lholght, ble is,it has no soull'.

L wr ipproached rhe horcl for drc first irnrc But ihc. The smellofthe my needs, th s mounlain hote always comes to mnd. There were deck chairs 3 OLrr first impression ofthe ou! We were nor dlsapPointed Enterlng thFough woman sitting ln a decl chalr, readlng.

We Picl ed up rwo of the chairs dre narrow porch,which,as itturned out,was b! During the day we usually dmnk o'rr h fd the main door like a wooden shed, we found ourselves in ;r l:rrge. They were hinged at. The gloom soon Save way to a mood of other veranda tab es, placed in a row against lhe facade and Protected lt,,ftleness.

Once,after lhe evening rneal, A! On sunny mo. No douht rbo'rt l rl, nshr. L,ir tl ro st. We hesitated and finally decided on a rable in the almost empty nrair ered by concrete slabs on steel columns, and the regular arrangement part of the hal. We atwhich we could onlyguess. The windows were set high up in the wals and ,b. We came across a large meta Ar the nexr tab e rwo women were ho ding an animated conversation. Neither rooms. The voices of the peo- room with desks and a blackboard.

The wa ls p e in the group ar the nexr tab e but one sounded pleasantly far away. Occupied as lwas with my own activ- rndustrial precast concrere co nstructlon s, or its spac;ousness,or its lack ities, my gaze nevertheless a lghted occasionaly on other faces,and I re- of rhe pedantic refnements rhat abound ln schools in Switzerland.

Once aga n,I resolved to begin my work we all lool ed our best. Barely iny crees, k. I chose lighr- di coored ash for my bed and clpboard,and I made drem so that they I looked good on allsides,with tre sxme wood ard rhe same carefulworl bicl and front. I disregarded the us! Sccf lf cross scction.

L rri.. We hand e th s stone sculpture with the utmost care, for the ha I ns great as I remembered ir, afd I was disappointed by the dull even at this stage it is already almost the whole buildinS We design the ghr on the wall paneling. I have never been a good observer, and I have never really wnnted ioints arisins duringthe section-wise casting ofthe concrete wil dis:P- ro bc. I I ke absorblng moods, moving in sparial s tuarions,and I am satis- pear into the network. The thin steel frames Proiecrlng from the stone fcd when llm able ro reta n a feeling,a sLrong genera impression from il e b ades in the middle ofthe door are intended to hold the wings of which can later extract detalls as from a palnt n8,and when lcan won- the doors.

Even when I our materials, the way we develoP the join. The difierence in the floor leve s of the niche and the ha I they want us to bu ld more cheaply. Perhaps it even d d exist once and was ater re' When I! Or,lf it was never there, perhaps l. He tried to sound me out by means of clevei unexpected questions.

What did I think abour dr hIecLUre. The tape recorder was on. I did my best. At the end of the interview. I realized that I was not really satis- fied with my answers. Lnter that evening,l talked to a friend aboutAki Kaurismekil latest film. I admire the director's empathy and respect for his chancters. Kaurismeklk art lends his films a feeling of warmth, I cold my colleague and then I knew what it was I would have liked ro have said on the tape this morning. Abundanr muted lL8ht. B right accen ts on the recep- rlon desks, ditferent kinds of naturil slone ln niches n the wall.

Peo- plo iscending the graceful stairway to tlro orclrclinS gallery stood out iSnlns! There are only good scats here. ChristopherAlexander,who speaks n Pdft. Lloydwrght drar nrrdc aSrext inrpress on on hcr, said H. The old lady was stil lving rhcrc. Thc-c was lro need for nre to go and see the housc, I rhought.

I srL d ed the documents dcso lbing t a smalL red house n a rural setting, a barn converted fto a dwe ng which lrad beef en arged by rhe irchire.

Thc cx i' l, rens on was a success,l rho! Akholgh you co! The window opc r fgs wcrc scn! Tlrc rcw pirrs of c ho! L,r ncwwlrol, l N,,rl[,r,'" ,'rli,,it.. We agreed that we could not awad agonal line of Broadway, the coaslal lnes of the perjnsu a. The bu ld- th s conversion a prize for design forthat,itsarchitecrura cialmslvere ifgs, pacl ed densely ln cheir right angled Srid,looming up in rhe sky,ln- too modest.

Yet I enioy th nl ing bacl on the sma red house. The rhe destruction of the Second world War Previously used as an em n! Hard and se f-assured, che exten en houses for a long time. At once,lhad a menca image of a house-sized block of solid t m- rnre rhat alLrded to the o d main bullding while maintaining i d scifct, ber,a dense volume made of the biological subs. A house il e this would change I fo!

A new arch tectural whole emeEed at each stage wood, mother, and materia were simiar: modera, modre, moterio. We i,frrs dcvc opment. Historlcalincongruities were not architectural y re- star. The old was adapred to. L r on On y when ore ifa yzcs thc s! Scncsis Before me,framed bythe soarirS,sh r ir g,scony c ry, iy. Lrr II r '. The architecture made a dynamic impression, symbolizing move' ment.

There was hardly any room eft for me. I fo lowed the wlnding path indicrted by the architecture. Once again, my interest lyas captured by the large rooms and the emptiness of rhe huge out door spaces in the photos of his work.

The women underline the individualty of their bod- ies, use them to proclaim their ldentlty. The body as a refuge in a world which would appear to be flooded by artificial signs of life. The human body as an object ofcontempomry art.

Surveys,disclosures that seek knowledge, or the human body as a fetlsh of self-assertion that can only succeed when looked at in the mirror or seen through the eyes of others? This autumn lvisited the room with the exhibltlon ofcontemporary ar- chitectula proiecls from France. Taut,elegant curves round ng offthe 8eometri- calvolumes ofthe objects arspecifc poinLs. The I lines reminded me of Rodln s drawings of nudes :rnd endowed drc oblccis with the q!

Architecruml nrodc s. Modcls BoiLrtihrl bodics,. I 0A glass partition divided up rhe length of the rarrow corridor of the holrse. The quality of rs construction captured my attention. The archi- old hotel. The wing ofa door below, a firmly fixed pane ofSlass above, no cect received us. The rooms were spacious,their order ogica. We were eager Normally done, nothing special- Certain y not a design by an architect.

The qual- B!! The architec! He opened c! Somehow, it seemed two-dimens ona. Every now and then, he touched the surface of model,colo llly painted.

The architecrs name has an international r n8, his fine archtrec- tlral draw ngs are we I known, and his wrjtten starements about con- l3 Thc towr I was vlsitng had a partic! Bu dlngs from lhe l9th cenlury and rhe rurn of the centu widely pub ished. Nothing excep!

Typically urbaf. The prcnrises on rhe ow. Ioot oI tlrc in irs sLllrr ,i, ti, ljy Ii! I remembered this a few days later when I was looking i at a new neighborhood nearby.

Lrctures,the precisely art cula! Then construction began. I was standing in front of one of the first b ocl s that lhe masons had built in stone from a nearby quarry.

I was slrrpr sed and irritated. Al- though everyth ng corresponded exacry with our plans, I had not ex pected this conc! Oppenheim at the Guggen- heim MLrse! The techniques she uses are s. There is no continuous,consistent style. Neverthe ess, I experienced her way of thinking,herwayof lool ngattheworldafd of interveningin! So there is probably no poift n won- derlng iust what it is that slylisr cilly links thc fanro! Dldn r Meretoppenhcim once snythrt every dea nccds its proper fonn ro bc cffcctivc?

Teaching Architecture, Learning Architecture Young people go to university with the aim of becoming architects, of finding out if they have got what it takes.

What is the first thing we should teach them? First of all, we must explain that the person standing in front of them is not someone who asks questions whose answers he already knows. Practiclng architecture is asking oneself questions, findlng ones own answers with the help of the teacher,whittling down,findinS solutions.

Over and over again. The strength of: good design lies in ourselves and in our ability to per- ceive thewor d with both emotion and reason. Agood architect! A good architectural design ls intelligent. We all experience architecture before we have even heard the word.

The roots of our understanding of archi- rccture lie in our childhood, in our youthrthey lie ln our biography. Stu- ,lcftshrvero earn! Their rllotred tasl s are devised! Wc nr. First the concrete objects are strike the faeades, what was the shine on the walls likel Was there a constructedi then they are drawn to scale. We carry imaSes ofworks ofarchitecture by which we have been nflu- Wooden floors like light membranes, heavy stone masses, soft texti es, enced around with us.

But this does notyet make a new design. Every design needs new images. Our"old" images can only our materials-We know them all. And yet we do not know them. This is researchtthis is the work of remembering. By its very nature,the image is always the whole of the imagined real- Architecture is always concrete mattenArchitecture is not abstract, but lry:wal and floor, ceiling and materials, the moods of liSht:nd color of concrete.

And we also see all the details of the transltlons ely a more or less inadequate representation of arch itectu re, compara- lrom the foor to the wall and from the wall to the window. A rch itectu re needs were watching a fiLm. At the beginning of the design process, the image is usualy sJoJsress of architecrLre. So we try repeatedly to re-trrticu ate and clarify ourtheme, l ln a concrete way means to touch, see, hear, and smell it. To discoyer ro idd the missing parts to our imagined picture.

Or,to put it another I l:nd consciouslv work w! The concrete, sens uou s quality ofour inner image helps Lour teachins. Lrs here. There are no urlts ird to confuse! Accun ly,no models at all in the convenc onal sense, I'rrxhr.

I Apricottrees exist. But beauty? What is lhe nature of a thing th:t sparl s a sensatlon of beaLrty, that gives us a feelinS at a certaln moment of experiencing beauty, of seeing beauty?

Does beauty have a form? I Music interrupts my writing. Peter Conradin is istening to a Char es Mingus recordlng of the 50s. A particular passage has caught my a! Booker Erwin, the sound of his horn hard and compressed, shrill but not brittle, porous despite the densityi dry pizzlcatos in Mingus's bass; no erotic, greasy groove" rhrt seeks to disarm and conquer.

The music, thus heard, might give rhe mpression of sounding stift But it isn't. Themusic dmws me in. Colorfu and senslr- r. The building is ra- sensualimpressions like smellor so! As if it belonged to the LandscaPe and the landscaPe belonged don't play a role. You enter the picture you're looking at.

The process has something to do with concentration and medihtion. You're fully aleft and aware. You reach another lev- us. Man comes from nature and returns to it. An inkling of the rneasure ofhuman life within the immensity ofnature wells uP inside us when we come upon the beauty of a landscaPe that has not been domesticated 3 The intenslty ofa briefexperience,the feelingofbeing utterly suspend- and carved down to hurnan scale.

We feel sh e ltered, humble and proud ed in time,beyond past and future this belongs to many, perhaps even at once. Something that has the radiation of beauty understand and now, in a moment of heiShtened experien. Feelings of joy. She ls bathing in the Sicilian sea and dives under water Her heart miss- The countenance of a sleepinS child, unaware of being watched.

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