READING DRAWINGS MAKING SPACE

OCTOBER 5, 2010 RCR ARQUITECTES PETER ZUMTHOR

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CATALONIA, SPAIN RAFAEL ARANDA, CARME PIGEM & RAMN VILALTA

The fact is that building, everything involved in building, is necessarily an act against nature; it is an anti-natural act When someone chooses a site, they separate it from nature.
FROM EL CROQUIS 138: RCR ARQUITECTES, 2007

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RCR ARQUITECTES BODEGAS BELL-LLOC PALAMS, GIRONA, SPAIN, 2005 07

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RCR ARQUITECTES CASA RURAL GIRONA, SPAIN, 2004 07

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PETER ZUMTHOR
BORN BASEL, SWITZERLAND 1943 RECEIVED THE PRITZKER IN 2009

Rooms may owe their existence to an idea but, in the end, they consist of physical matter, of material that often obeys no idea at all and only wants to exercise its own rights.
FROM PETER ZUMTHOR: THERME VALS, 2007

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