Zumthor The Swiss architect awarded Pritzker is a rare and excellent news architectural
The winners of the Pritzker prize brings the aristocracy of the architectural profession today. This is a gold gotha \u200b\u200bto that recently accessed crying, that is, producing unpredictable ways, very showy, and applied to buildings that at first glance breathtaking. In the last tramode rub that list, among others, Piano, Foster, Koolhaas, Herzog & De Meuron, Utzon, Hadid, Mayne, Rogers and Nouvel, producers of some buildings whose vocation or not so secret "secret" seems to be to become a city icon.
On the contrary, such a relationship lacking in the music professionals who prefer a quiet, thoughtful, discreet, which ultimately generates architectures sober, but no less impressive or beautiful. This section could be included in the Australian Glenn Murcutt, winner in 2002, and now the Swiss Peter Zumthor, whose award, for the year, was released days ago.
What goes through the head of a guy like Zumthor, capable of projecting as he whispers, living aisladoy given to the cultivation of sensitivity, clicking on that lonely path to the global elite? I come for answers to atmospheres, a slim volume published by Gustavo Gili in 2003, which contains a light-conference given by Zumthor Decalogue which then culled two ideas. First: "The architectural quality is not, for me, being included among the leaders in architecture or figure in the history of architecture, to get published, and so on. For me the reality is that a building architectural moves you or not." Second: "The best compliment that I can do is not someone on a building vengaydiga I have done: "Aha, here you have achieved a form supercoool!", but everything is explained by the use. "So to Zumthor, good architecture is one that moves and makes sense because of its usefulness. A boat Suddenly, nothing like the virtues that often go hand in hand. An appeal to the emotions abstract, indefinable, the other would be related to the pragmatism and everyday life: the high face of the earth. However, there is a link between two concepts but probably is only available to those working on the basis of high quality personal and professional, and driven by the increased self-imposed. Because at this point is relatively easy to shock the public with forms disruptive, or meet all customer needs and neglected the formality of the building. But it's very rare that emotion and match functionality in a work like that of Zumthor agree. Hence, the Pritzker this year is a rare and excellent news for the architecture.
MOIX, Llàtzer. "Zumthor. La Vanguardia (April 19, 2009)
