
Seeing Zumthor. Images by Hans Danuser
- Publisher
- Scheidegger & Spiess
- Year
- 2009
- ISBN
- 9783858812353
- Specifications
- Hardcover
88 pages
Essay by Philip Ursprung
One of the foremost contemporary Swiss photographers and an equally celebrated Swiss architect are brought together in this unique collaboration of distinguished artistic visions: pictures of buildings that comment equally on the art of the lens and the art of building. More than twenty years ago, in a milestone event of twentieth-century architectural imagery, the photographer captured, at the architect's invitation, a protective structure for archaeological excavations and a chapel. When first shown, those pictures ignited a lively debate that has been revived with a recent exhibition of images of the architect's most famous work, a celebrated spa.