Chapter 5
In: Landscapes of Affect and Emotion
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M. Christine Boyer
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Abstract
When architects write they often recall memories of places from their childhood, from travels, from site visits. They remark on how these memories shaped their identity and extended their language of architecture. This chapter explores how architects responded to a sense of place; wrote down their memories, drew inspiration from landscapes, attached emotion to materials and objects. It does so through the lens of the writings of the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza (1933–), the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (1941–), and the British architects Alison and Peter Smithson (1928–1993; and 1923–2003).