Antonello da Messina, Annunziata, 1475-76
"The Beautiful Form: I may find that in some icon, and sometimes in a still life -- both help me to see how something as found its form -- but also in a common or garden tool, in literature, in a piece of music."
Peter Zumthor, Atmospheres, 2006, who has just been announced as this year's Pritzker Prize winner - a triumph for beauty, for an architecture of the body.
[And for the non-New Zealand speaking readers:
"Beauty" - as in the Collins Dictionary, sense 6: "(N.Z.) an expression of approval or agreement"]
2 comments:
Zumthor--let us all celebrate, for this is truly special.
An optimism - for architecture, yes, and for the landscape, for the body ... for the soul ...
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