{"title":"Books by Peter Zumthor","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9783858818058","title":"A Feeling of History","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile completing the Almannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in southern Norway in 2016, celebrated Swiss architect Peter Zumthor asked Norwegian scholar Mari Lending to engage in a dialogue about the project. Departing from the ways in which Zumthor's pavilions frame the barely visible traces of the industrial exploitation of zinc in the 1890s, the conversation took unexpected turns. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn meandering, impressionistic style and drawing on Zumthor's favourite writers, such as Johann Peter Hebel, Stendhal, Vladimir Nabokov, and T.S. Eliot, their exchanges explore how history, time and temporalities reverberate across the famous architect's oeuvre. Looking back, Zumthor ponders on how a feeling of history has informed his continuous attempts of emotional reconstruction by means of building, from architectural interventions in dramatic landscapes to his design for the redevelopment of Los Angeles' LACMA on a grand urban scale. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis small, beautifully designed new book records the conversation between Zumthor and Lending, illustrated with photographs by the renowned Swiss architectural photographer Hélène Binet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310743957877,"sku":"9783858818058","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783858818058_c33086c6-e7ae-49be-bc16-c6145bcb345c.jpg?v=1786032146"},{"product_id":"9783764374952","title":"Atmospheres – Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects","description":"What “really constitutes an architectural atmosphere”? Peter Zumthor says, is “this singular density and mood, this feeling of presence, well-being, harmony, beauty ... under whose spell I experience what I otherwise would not experience in precisely this way.” Zumthor’s passion is the creation of buildings that produce this kind of effect, but how can one actually set out to achieve it? In nine short, illustrated chapters framed as a process of self-observation, Peter Zumthor describes what he has on his mind as he sets about creating the atmosphere of his houses. Images of spaces and buildings that affect him are every bit as important as particular pieces of music or books that inspire him. From the composition and “presence”? of the materials to the handling of proportions and the effect of light, this poetics of architecture enables the reader to recapitulate what really matters in the process of house design.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310992568693,"sku":"9783764374952","price":30.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783764374952_f15b0dfa-02cf-47b8-a06d-139580db6127.jpg?v=1786031967"},{"product_id":"peter-zumthor","title":"Peter Zumthor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003e'Therme Vals'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, the exceptional building for a thermal bath in the Swiss mountain spa of Vals by the celebrated Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, became an icon of contemporary Swiss and international architecture within a very short time after its opening in 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReduction to the essential is the leading principle behind the design. Visitors should experience the elemental nature of water, of different temperatures and various dimensions of basins and rooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book, the only available monograph on the Therme Vals, contains an essay by Sigrid Hauser, on subjects such as 'Artemis\/Diana', 'Baptism', 'Entrance', 'Mikvah', 'Pilgrimage', 'Resources', 'Spring', etc., and comments by Peter Zumthor on his design concept and the construction, the building materials and process, and the realised project. It is illustrated with Zumthor's own sketches and plans and with photographs by Hélène Binet, taken especially for this publication.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492165919093,"sku":"9783858817044","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783858817044.jpg?v=1786528990"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-peter-zumthor.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}