4 posts tagged “design”

Zumthor just won the Pritzker Prize.  This book reminds me of 'Basic Writings' by Martin Heidegger.  There is an  essay by Heidegger call "Building, Thinking, and Dwelling."  I had a hint of the relation.  Then I found a Wikipedia article that mentions Zumthor mirroring Heidegger.    

Zumthor mentions the term “presence” of the materials in his work.  I remember reading 'Building, Thinking, and Dwelling' and try to grasp Heidegger's meaning of the bridge as the beginning of a 'presence'.

Is Zumthor a senualist?  In a sense he is but not the same as those that sprouted in the Roccoco period.  Later Modernist such as Adolf Loos strip the ornamentation and the buildings became bare until it was cold.  Zumthor seems to bring the warmth back with out all the ostentation.  Architecture has always been about light, material, and sense.  Zumthor finds innotive ways to let the material speak, or he treats the ordinary material into exterordinary ways.  He seems to use material the way a writer uses words to compose a poem.

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Thinking Architecture

Peter Zumthor

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Hi Duc,

Congratulations! You’ve won the 2nd prize on tisimi.com’s first competition, which is a Nintendo Wii. I also want to thank you for helping us out with testing the site.

Right now we are in the process of changing the look and feel completely, and migrating to new and faster servers.

I am sure you will like the new site, and can’t wait to hear your feedback about it when we launch.

We are going to announce the winners of the competition in our email newsletter, and I was wondering if you prefer we use your real name or your username to announce who’s the winner?

Also, where would you like the Nintendo sent to?

Thanks and congratulations!

Hi tisimi.com member

The first tisimi.com design competition has ended and here are the winners*:

1. Martin Kingsley – USD $1,000  Martin

2. Duc Ly – Nintendo Wii Duc

3. Andreas Hellman – iPod Shuffle

We are hard at work making tisimi.com a better site with a brand new look & feel and great new features. We are also upgrading the hardware, moving to bigger and faster servers.

We are mega excited about the new site, which will feature fantastic new competitions sponsored by Kodak and Corel Software, and have even more prizes.

The new site will launch soon, so stay tuned.

Robin Daniels

The tisimi team

*Based on at least 10 votes

Hi Lexly,

I am about to launch a new site for design and innovation. The site is www.tisimi.com and is planned to go live on March 1st.

The problem I have is that for me to launch the site, I need to have something up there.

If you are interested in showcasing your designs and winning prizes (up to $1,000) by doing so, check out the site.

You can also reach me at robin@tisimi.com

Thanks for your time.

-Robin

I would love for you to upload some of your images to the site, so you can showcase your talent, and maybe win... i particularly like these ones:

cheers!