Mound, hearth, enclosure, roof, and column. The way we see it, Gottfried Semper and scholars already figured out what makes honest tectonic form. We're looking for the element that satisfies our primitive urge to value architecture that's good.
Said by Peter Zumthor.  Read the rest of the thought provoking, wish-I-was-cool-enough-to-say-stuff-like-that article @ NYTimes.com

Posted at 12:55pm and tagged with: quote, zumthor, beauty, architecture,.

Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers. If you do what you should, then at the end there is something, which you can’t explain maybe, but if you are lucky, it has to do with life.
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