Gernot Böhme's more theoretical texts are just as accessible and offer a thought provoking approach to capturing atmosphere in physical construction. One word for it is Atmosphere.Īlongside Zumthor's writing is an excellent interview with Juhani Pallasmaa entitled Atmosphere, Compassion and Embodied Experience, demonstrating Pallasmaa's profound understanding of the wider cultural world we live in - a wider cultural world that some architects seem to forget when absorbed in design. What on earth is it that moves me? How can I get it into my own work? … How do people design things with such a beautiful, natural presence, things that move me every single time. Quality in architecture … is to me when a building manages to move me. What do we mean when we speak of architectural quality? It is a question that I have little difficulty in answering. Alongside this, the OASE team have visited his studio and interviewed him about the current relevance of his writing and how he captures 'atmosphere' in his design process. Zumthor, famous for his 1996 text Atmospheres, identifies and discusses "a series of themes that play a role in his work in achieving architectonic atmosphere". Weather is the conditions of the atmosphere over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere is over long periods of time. In OASE's 91st edition, Building Atmospheres, the elusive craft of creating, capturing and understanding 'atmosphere' in architecture is explored in a carefully chosen collection of themed essays by Peter Zumthor, Juhani Pallasmaa and philosopher Gernot Böhme.
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