Monday, April 13, 2009

happy pritzker peter zumthor!


therme vals, switzerland
photo by tom gallagher


TAKE THE FULL TOUR

one uncommonly know fact is the plan shape of his saint benedict's chapel is a half section of an algebraic planar curve aka lemniscate. the full recognizable version is commonly know as the symbol for infinity.

Lemniscate [compare with the 0.25 black line version]:


The chapel:

the plan [sorry so fuzzy]


saint benedict's chapel
photo by doctor casino at flickr



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