"The connection between minimalism and the work of Herzog & de Meuron is evident in works like the Goetz Art Gallery in Munich (1992). For this project, it could be said that the architects pursued no other goal than to isolate a piece of pure abstract space. Here a work of art could offer itself to "
"Again the floor plan, opaque and hermetic, excludes movement. The passages that connect the spaces must be understood as inevitable perforations that make it possible for us to move from one to another, in a way not too much unlike the passage through a diaphragm that physicists call osmosis. This h"
"In examining his work so far, we have witnessed a process of dismantling and recomposing that at some point made us invoke Morandi’s still lifes to explain his architecture. As we have seen in numerous projects in the course of his career, Gehry’s is an architecture dominated by sculptural and visua"
作者简介
José Rafael Moneo is an internationally renowned architect, in practice since 1965. He has taught in both Spain and America, and from 1986 to 1990 he was Chairman of the Architecture Department at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He holds the Gold Medal for Fine Arts awarded by the government of Spain, the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize for Architecture, and the Schock Prize.