Dec 10, 2024
Nabokov makes it clear that his passion and compassion for memories always happen in the present and only in the present, and that his happiest moments are right now, right here, perfectly captured in the presence of butterflies. I've said it before and I say it again because it is so important to me: I want my architecture to be linked to layers of life and time; I want to understand why and how a particular object might set in motion a particular strain of emotions and memories. And architecture is about history precisely then when it ties in with the world of the here and now. Places and buildings are real, they are concrete, they are here.
Peter Zumthor, A Feeling of History, by Peter Zumthor, Mari Lending