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Author Zumthor, Peter, author

Title Thinking architecture / Peter Zumthor
Edition Third, expanded edition
Published Basel : Birkhäuser, [2010]
Basel : Birkhäuser, [2015]
© 2010, 2015
©2010

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 WATERFT ART&ARCH  720.1 Zum/Tar 2010  DUE 03-05-24
Description 111 pages : colour illustrations, ; 24 cm
Contents A way of looking at things -- The hard core of beauty -- From a passion for things to the things themselves -- The body of architecture -- Teaching architecture, learning architecture -- Does beauty have a form? -- The magic of the real -- The light in the landscape -- Architecture and landscape -- The Leis houses
Summary Here, Peter Zumthor articulates what motivates him to design his buildings, which appeal to the visitor's heart and mind in so many different ways and possess a compelling and unmistakable presence and aura
Notes Part of the Asia Pacific Design Library. QSL
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 110)
Subject Zumthor, Peter -- Aesthetics.
Zumthor, Peter., 1943-
Zumthor, Peter, 1943- -- Aesthetics.
Zumthor, Peter.
Architecture -- Philosophy.
Architecture -- Switzerland -- History -- 20th century.
Author Translation of Zumthor, Peter. Architektur Denken
LC no. 2011501437
ISBN 3034605854 (hbk.)
9783034605854 (hbk.)