東海林健建築設計事務所が設計した、新潟の「komi house / 胎内の家」です。
村落の“茫漠”な場に計画されました。建築家は、来客に応え皆で遊べる“多様な居場所”を目指し、敷地両端に“玄関棟”と“住居棟”を配置して領域を形成する構成を考案しました。そして、中央の空間“間の間”は開放性と居住性にも貢献します。
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Peter Zumthor, architect, in conversation with architects Billie Tsien and Tod Williams.
About Peter Zumthor
Born in 1943 in Basel, Switzerland, Zumthor works with around three dozen people in the alpine setting of Haldenstein, Switzerland, producing architecture originals like Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria; Therme Vals, Vals, Switzerland; Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Germany; and the Steilneset Memorial, Vardo, Norway. In 1963, he began studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule, an arts and crafts school in Basel, and studied industrial design and architecture as an exchange student at Pratt Institute in New York in 1966.
Zumthor founded Atelier Peter Zumthor in 1979. His work is largely unpublished because he believes that architecture must be experienced first-hand. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture—Mies van der Rohe Award (1999); the Praemium Imperiale (2008); and the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2009). In 2012, he was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal. He is currently designing the David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
About Billie Tsien and Tod Williams
Husband-and-wife architecture firm Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners, was founded in 1986 in New York City. Williams and Tsien began working together in 1977. Their firm focuses on institutions such as museums, schools, and nonprofit organizations, including the following recent projects: the Obama Presidential Center, Chicago; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; American Folk Art Museum, New York; and the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
