Die Geschichte in den Dingen (Peter Zumthor)

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.

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.

Buch (Paperback), Deutsch, 84 Seiten