| A Feeling of History Contributor(s): Zumthor, Peter (Author), Lending, Mari (Author) |
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ISBN: 3858818054 ISBN-13: 9783858818058 Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess OUR PRICE: $28.71 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Criticism - Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms - General |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.4" W x 7.6" (0.30 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Zumthor's 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 H l ne Binet. The resulting book is a surprisingly revelatory view of one of the most interesting and restlessly creative architects of our era. |
Contributor Bio(s): Zumthor, Peter: - Peter Zumthor works with his atelier of around thirty people in the alpine setting of Haldenstein, Switzerland, producing architectural originals like Kunsthaus Bregenz, Therme Vals, Museum Kolumba Köln, or the Steilneset Memorial in Vardř.Lending, Mari: - Mari Lending is professor of architectural history and theory at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Her latest book is Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction (2017). |