Peter Zumthor Analysis
Peter Zumthor, a Basel born Swiss, is an internationally accredited and decorated architect. He is one of the most revered architects of the 21st century. Zumthor is best known for his materiality and attention to space. His style is said to epitomize the principles of phenomenology. Buildings should be experienced, a specific mood and feeling should felt by the person interacting with the space.
In 2006 Peter Zumthor was commissioned for the Steilneset Memorial monument by the town of Vardo, Finnmark County, the Varanger Museum, and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration in collaboration with the French-American artist Louis Bourgeois. The memorial is located in Vardo, Norway. Zumthor is the only foreign architect to have ever worked in …show more content…
It is as if poetry has taken the form of a structure, and within that structure a space. Atmosphere is the poetics of architecture and a window into Zumthor’s personal sources of inspiration. He forms this poetic structure with the choice and use of materiality and light as previously stated, but also in the space created. The height, width, depth, orientation and shape are elements to be manipulated. These are used at his disposal to create that atmosphere he desires or seeks to achieve. How spaces communicate with us, what relationship we have with them is what’s important. Peter Zumthor expresses his motivation in designing buildings that speak to our feelings and understanding in so many ways and that possesses a powerful and unmistakable presence and personality (Thinking Architecture, …show more content…
The interior walkway is a condensed space reaching forward toward a point, blurred by light of the window pockets and the warm bulb glow. It has a beautiful silence that can be associated with attributes such as self-evidence, composure and sensuousness. Also there is no hierarchy of spaces, but a journey of feeling in an enclosed environment. The structure is representing the memory of the executed, but as an individual structure it is not representing anything. It is merely just being. A philosophy Zumthor uses to design by (Thinking Architecture,
In 2006 Peter Zumthor was commissioned for the Steilneset Memorial monument by the town of Vardo, Finnmark County, the Varanger Museum, and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration in collaboration with the French-American artist Louis Bourgeois. The memorial is located in Vardo, Norway. Zumthor is the only foreign architect to have ever worked in …show more content…
It is as if poetry has taken the form of a structure, and within that structure a space. Atmosphere is the poetics of architecture and a window into Zumthor’s personal sources of inspiration. He forms this poetic structure with the choice and use of materiality and light as previously stated, but also in the space created. The height, width, depth, orientation and shape are elements to be manipulated. These are used at his disposal to create that atmosphere he desires or seeks to achieve. How spaces communicate with us, what relationship we have with them is what’s important. Peter Zumthor expresses his motivation in designing buildings that speak to our feelings and understanding in so many ways and that possesses a powerful and unmistakable presence and personality (Thinking Architecture, …show more content…
The interior walkway is a condensed space reaching forward toward a point, blurred by light of the window pockets and the warm bulb glow. It has a beautiful silence that can be associated with attributes such as self-evidence, composure and sensuousness. Also there is no hierarchy of spaces, but a journey of feeling in an enclosed environment. The structure is representing the memory of the executed, but as an individual structure it is not representing anything. It is merely just being. A philosophy Zumthor uses to design by (Thinking Architecture,