Cada quien apunta lo que le interesa de un libro, aquí les dejo mis anotaciones.

En este caso cómo en el libro “Thinking Architecture” (también de Peter Zumthor) tengo que admitir que me interesó casi todo. Me parecen dos libros que aparte del contenido que aportan para el ánalisis arquitectónico, logran transmitir una forma de ver y hacer arquitectura a cualquier lector sin estar familiarizado con el tema.

> “Quality architecture to me is when a building manages to move me. What on earth is it that moves me?” p. 11

> “And I have to admit that I´m back to believing in first impressions. It´s a bit like that with architecture, too. I enter a building, see a room, and – in the fraction of a second – have this feeling about it. We perceive atmosphere that works incredibly quickly, and which we humans evidently need to help us survive.” p. 11 y 12

> “The magic of things, the magic of the real world.” p. 19

1. The Body of Architecture

> “And that is what I would call the first and the greatest secret of architecture, that it collects different things in the world, different materials, and combines themto create a space like this.” p. 23

> “A body that can touch me.” p. 23

2. Material Compatibility

> “Materials react with one another and have their radiance, so that the material composition gives rise to something unique.” p. 25

> “There are a thousand different possibilities in one material alone.” p. p. 25

3. The Sound of Space

> “I mean trying to make the building a quite place. That´s pretty difficult these days, because our world has become so noisy.” p. 31

4. The Temperature  of a Space

5. Surrounding Objects

> “And I got to wondering whether the job the architecture had set itself here was to create these receptacles to house objects.” p. 37

> “what´s needed is a design that prevents things becoming too leisurely and nice.” p. 39

> “It´s a great help to me to imagine the future of rooms in a house I´m building, to imagine them actually in use. In English you could probably describe it as <a sense of home>.” p. 39

6. Between Composure and Seduction

> “Architecture, like music, is a temporary art. That means thinking about the way people move in a building, and there are poles between which I like to place my work”

> “… the uses of the building. Guidance, preparation, stimulation, the pleasent surprise, relaxation – ” p. 45

7. Tension between Interior and exterior

> ” The facade says: I am, I can, I want – in other words, whatever the owner and his architect wanted when they built it. The facade also says: but I am not going to show you everything.” p. 47

> “And what sort of statement do I want to make publicly?” p. 49

8. Levels of Intimacy

> “The thick door and the thin one. The thin wall and the thick.” p. 51

9. The Light on Things

> “So the first of my favourite ideas is this: to plan the building as a pure mass of shadow then, afterwards, to put in light as if you were hollowing out the darkness, as if the light were a new mass seeping in.” p. 59 / Esta frase me recuerda al trabajo de Pierre Soulages.

> “to choose the materials in the knowledge of the way they reflect and to fit everything together on the basis of that knowledge.” p. 59

* Architecture as Surroundings

> “It would make me very happy to have made things which other people love.” p. 67

* Coherence

> “Place, use and form. The form reflects the place, the place is just so, and the use reflects this and that.” p. 69

> “Putting things together in a logical fashion.” p. 69

* The Beautiful Form

>”Thank you for listening.” p. 73

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2011. GGC.

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