Thinking Architecture: Third, Expanded Edition

In his texts, 2009 Pritzker Prize-winner Peter Zumthor articulates what motivates him to design his buildings. Now in its third edition, this book has been expanded to include two new essays: "Architecture and Landscape" deals in the relationship between the structure and its surrounding; in "The Leis Houses," the architect describes the genesis of two wooden houses in the town of Leis in the Swiss canton of Glauburden, thus thematizing the special challenge of integrating contemprary architecture into a traditional architectural context. Illus. 112p.