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Peter Zumthor Therme Vals, English Edition

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"The beginning was easy. Going back in time, bathing as one might have a thousand years ago, creating a building, a structure set into the slope with an architectural attitude and aura older than anything already built around it, inventing a building that could somehow always have been there, a building that relates to the topography and geology of the location, that responds to the stone masses of Vals Valley, pressed, faulted, folded and sometimes broken into thousands of plates-these were the objectives of our design." Peter Zumthor

Born in 1943, famed architect Peter Zumthor studied at the College of Applied Arts in Basel and the Pratt Institute in New York. In 2009, he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for his life's work, which includes the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, and Kolumba Art Museum in Cologne, Germany. His Therme Vals, the spa complex built into a Swiss Alp mountainside, became an icon of contemporary architecture soon after its opening in 1996.
Peter Zumthor Therme Vals, the only book-length study of the mountain spa, features the architect's own original sketches and plans for its design, as well as Hélène Binet's striking photographs of the structure. Annotations by Zumthor elucidate Therme Vals's symbiotic relationship to its natural surroundings, and an essay on such topics as Artemis/Diana, Baptism, and Spring by architectural scholar Sigrid Hauser draw out the connections between the elemental nature of the spa and mythology, bathing, and purity. This lavishly illustrated volume about the spa that catapulted a remote Swiss village onto the international architecture scene will entrance all enthusiasts of contemporary design.

About the author

Peter Zumthor, geb. 1943, gehört international zu den renommiertesten Schweizer Architekten. In Haldenstein bei Chur führt er eine kleine Architekturmanufaktur mit wenigen Mitarbeitern. Sein Bestreben ist es, Architektur sinnlich erlebbar zu machen. Zu seinen bekanntesten Bauten zählen u.a. Therme Vals 1996, Kunsthaus Bregenz 1997, Kunstmuseum Kolumba, Köln 2007.

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Berg, Stein, Wasser: Die Therme Vals, Peter Zumthors Schlüsselwerk, in einer kongenial schön gestalteten Monografie. Reduktion auf das Wesentliche auch in Buchform.

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«Während man im Buch schaut und liest, beginnt es aus den Seiten fast zu dampfen.» Gerhard Mack, art
«Eine ebenso prächtige wie opulente Monografie über die steinerne Therme Vals. Besonders eindrucksvoll ist das Buch aufgrund einer grossen Anzahl von Studien und Zeichnungen Zumthors, welche die Annäherungen des Architekten an die Bauaufgabe sowie den Weg zur endgültigen Lösung plastisch werden lassen.» Hubertus Adam, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
«Reiseführer durch das Weltwunder von Vals. Pünktlich zum kleinen Jubiläum ist der Band nun da – und strahlt die gleiche berglerische Ruhe aus wie der Bau selbst.» Caspar Schärer, Tages-Anzeiger
«Es ist ein Buch für Liebhaber des Schlichten. Denn die Architektur Peter Zumthors verzichtet auf Überflüssiges und konzentriert sich auf das Wesentliche.» moneycab.com
«Ein Band, der fotografisch und literarisch gleichermassen entzündet ist vom Charisma dieses Baus.» Peter Surber, St. Galler Tagblatt
«Der gediegene Band verbindet Kommentare, Architekturgedanken und Bauhinweise mit hervorragenden Bildern in Farbe und Schwarzweiss. Gerade in der Fotogenität des Baus zeigt sich dessen Qualität.» Urs Berger, Biel-Benkemer Dorf-Zytig

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"A monograph on the stony Therme Vals that is as splendid as it is opulent. The book is particularly impressive because of a large number of Zumthor's studies and drawings, which vividly reveal the architect's approaches to the building task as well as the path to the final solution." Hubertus Adam, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
"As you look and read in the book, it almost begins to steam out of the pages." Gerhard Mack, art
"Travel guide through the wonder of the world of Vals. Just in time for the small anniversary, the volume is now here - and radiates the same mountainous calm as the building itself." Caspar Schärer, Tages-Anzeiger

Product details

Authors Hélène Binet, Hélène Binet, Sigrid Hauser, Peter Zumthor
Assisted by Hélène Binet (Photographs), Peter Zumthor (Editor)
Publisher Scheidegger & Spiess
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 20.02.2025
 
EAN 9783858817044
ISBN 978-3-85881-704-4
No. of pages 190
Dimensions 242 mm x 303 mm x 26 mm
Weight 1362 g
Illustrations 68 farbige und 55 s/w-Abbildungen
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture

Architektur, Zumthor, Peter, Verstehen, Bad, Swissness, Valsertal : Architektur, Architektonische Struktur und Gestaltung, Peter Zumthor, Graubünden / Grisons / Grigioni / Grischun

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