MODIFYING ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE

In their physical realisation and our actual experience of them, basic elements and the places they identify are modified: by light, by colour, by sounds, by temperature, by air movements, by smells (and even possibly by tastes), by the qualities and textures of the materials used, by use, by scale, by the effects and experience of time....

Honore de BALZAC, translated by Sylvia Raphael - 'The Purse', in The Aetheist's Mass, Penguin, London, 1995

Gabriel Garcia MARQUEZ - Love in the Time of Cholera, 1988, p.116

Peter ZUMTHOR - Thermal Baths, Vals, Switzerland

Light:

LIGHT, CHURCH IN NORTHERN SPAIN

MIRO FOUNDATION, BARCELONA, by Josep Lluis Sert

Sound:

Gabriel Garcia MARQUEZ - 'The Saint', in Strange Pilgrims, 1994, pp.41-2

METEORA BELL

Texture:

COBBLES

COBBLES IN PATTERNS

Temperature:

CAT BY THE FIRE

Scale:

DOORWAY OF THE GODS

CHICKEN SCALE