Wednesday, October 20, 2010

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU




Conceptual Model for the Heart of a City (Master Plan) - Melun-Senart, France


Model of Skyline - Silhouette for a city like Hamburg


JVC - New Urban Entertainment Center
Guadalajara, Mexico


Section of Rooftop Remodel Showing Conference Room


Rooftop Remodelling Falkestrasse
Vienna, Austria


Museum of Confluences Model
Lyon, France


UFA Cinema Center
Dresden, Germany


Open House, California


"Coop Himmelblau is an idea of creating architecture with fantasy, as buoyant and variable as clouds."

"Architecture has to react to our movements, feelings, moods, emotions, so that we want to live within it."

"We want architecture that has more. Architecture that bleeds, that exhausts, that whirls, and even breaks. Architecture that lights up stings, rips, and tears under stress. ARchitecture has to be cavernous, fiery, smooth, hard, angular, brutal, round, delicate, colorful, obscene, lustful, dreamy, attracting, repelling, wet, dry, and throbbing. Alive or dead. If cold, then cold as a block of ice. If hot, then hot as a blazing wing. Architecture must blaze."

"The differentiated spatial situations no longer separate - at most, they present the challenge of taking possession of the space."

"The development of architecture is furthered by strategies comprising searching for lines and fields of possibilities tied together by chance, anti-logic, and anti-authority."

"Architecture is now."