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While he was working to complete the Almannajuvet 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, or T. S. Eliot, their exchanges explore how history, time, and temporalities reverberates across Zumthor's oeuvre. Looking back, he 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 Hèlène Binet. The resulting book is a surprisingly revelatory view of one of the most interesting and restlessly creative architects of our era.
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Peter Zumthor arbeitet mit rund 30 Leuten in seinem Atelier in Haldenstein, wo er architektonische Originale wie das Kunsthaus in Bregenz, die Therme Vals, das Museum Kolumba in Köln oder das Steilneset-Denkmal in Vardø entwickelt. Mari Lending ist Professorin für Architekturgeschichte und -theorie an der Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Ihr neustes Buch Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction erschien 2017.
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Geschichte, Zeit, Ort und Erinnerung im Werk des Architekten Peter Zumthor
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"Though only 84 pages, the booklet contains more substance than many an unfocused anthology or chatty monograph. Much like Zumthor's level-headed architecture, the book thrives on thoughtful ideas that carry far." Dr. Dirk Hohnsträter,
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"A small treasure you hold in your hands with this little book." Angela Sabo,
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«Obwohl es nur 84 Seiten umfasst, enthält das Büchlein mehr Substanz als so manch unkonzentriertes Sammelwerk oder geschwätzige Monografien. Ganz so wie die besonnene Architektur Zumthors, lebt das Buch von durchdachten Ideen, die weit tragen.» Dr. Dirk Hohnsträter, Inventur-Blog
«Einen kleinen Schatz hält man mit diesem Büchlein in den Händen.» Angela Sabo, einszueins
