Category: Quotes

  • My Model for Zumthor

    My Model for Zumthor

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    by

    hugospeepbox
    in

    1/20 model. white concrete and PVC “One of my favourite ideas is the following: to first think about the building as a big mass of shades and then, just as in an excavation process, place the lights and let the luminosity soak the inside.”   Peter Zumthor

  • Mangado’s Surprise Box

    Mangado’s Surprise Box

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    by

    hugospeepbox
    in

    “I’ve always thought that architecture should have something of a magic box. A surprise contained in itself. That intensity which can only be discovered in its entirety, in its entire dimensional quality, after the object is seen and toured. In the case of magic boxes, their opening is never the same and is never repeated. The surprise by its own condition is mutable in intensity. And if we accept that buildings are alive, those which make the inside…