CASA Z

Feel the Atmosphere ...

"It's about creating emotional space,"

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The Atmosphere at Pether Zunthor´s Home

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Casa Z Coira is located in Haldestein beside his studio

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Reflecting on a childhood recollection of running through a village in springtime, he said:

"This is my first memory of something which I think was pure presence, with no meaning and no history."

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"Architecture is not about form, it is about many other things," he said. "The light and the use, and the structure, and the shadow, the smell and so on. I think form is the easiest to control, it can be done at the end."

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"...in his Royal Gold Medal lecture at the RIBA in London yesterday, explaining that he believes that light, materials and atmosphere are the most important aspects of architecture..."

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 "I'm a passionate architect and I think it's a beautiful profession."

Peter Zumthor, working in his office in Haldenstein, Switzerland, in 2000,

"For me, they should all have atmosphere,"