© Photograph Laura Padget FrasfursMiin taken in he Zoenthor residence ay 2008 Lay and Cover: Haale Grind Hs (2 Texte: Peter Zuthor Halden ‘Transtuon: Maureen Obert-Turnr (ess 1988-1 CaterieSchelbrt say 1998-2004) mundane oechelynrGncrewanrarrane eae ae Baten ringetteAWay of Looking at Things In search of the lost architecture When | thik aboue architecture, images come into my mind. Mary of these images are connected with ny traning and work as an archect. ‘Thay contain the professional inowledge about archtectre shat Ihave snthered over the years Some ofthe other images have to do with ny hldhood There was ime whan | experienced architecture without ‘inking about it Sometimes can almost feel particular door handle in my hand. piece of metal shaped like the toc fs spoon | eed to ake hold oft whan I went nce my une arden. That or hance stil seems to me Ie a speci sign of entry into x wold ofa ferent moods and smell | remember the sound of the gravel under rn fet the soft gleam ofthe waxed oak sree can hear the hese front door closing behind me a | walk slong the dark coridor an en er de kitchen he only relly Brig i ream in che house Looking back e seens sf ehis was the onl room in de house in which the celng did noe sappear into tight: dhe smal hexagonal es of {te oor dark red and xed so ily ogether thatthe cracks between hem were almost impercepule, were hard and unyielding under ay foot and a smell ofl pane sed from the katchen ewpdourd Everything abou his then was typical of traditional kitchen There ‘as nothing spec about ic But perhaps it was just the fact that twas s0 very much. so veryracurally, kitchen that as imprinted its emo- ey ndey on my mind The atmosphere of thi room snsolbly likedith my ides of kitchen, Now I fel tke going on and taking about the door handles tha eme afer the handle on my suns garden gate, shout the ground and the floors about the sf seple warmed by the sn. about the fgstoner covered with chest avo inthe aut, and about al the doors tha sed in such differen ways, one replete so dig, another with s tin cheap dates, athars hard implac ble, snd intimidating Memories ike these contain the deapes architectural experience that 1 no They are dhe revervoirs ofthe archisceural atmospheres and Images eat | explore in my work as an architect ‘When I design » bung frequently find myself sinking ino od Fa forgotten memories, and then I ry to recllcewhac the remembered arcitecural stunion was realy the, wha had mean to me atthe tame, and | ey co think how i cou help me now to revive tha brant srmosphere peraded by the simple presence of things in which every ‘thing had is own spect place and form, And although I cannot trace any specal forms there is hin of fllnss and ofrehness that makes te nit | hive seen before Ye, at dhe sme ine know that ie sll pew ae diferntand that there is no diectreferoce toa former work of architects which might dvlge the secret of the mamory- Jaden mood, Made of materials ‘To mo, thoro i romsthing revealing sbovt the work of Joreph Bauye and some of the arte ofthe Aree Povers group. What ipresis me Is the precise and sensuous way they use materi It seems anchored In an ancient elemental knowledge about man's se of materiale and