2021年5月12日 星期三

Mario Botta - Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel

 

狄倫馬特是一位瑞士知名的文學家和小說家. 小說對他而言是一種操控不同時間尺度的藝術, 再加上他對瑞士土地情感的情有獨鍾, 在1992年, 邀請瑞士知名建築師 Mario Botta在他故居旁增建一棟美術館(狄倫馬特中心, 簡稱CDN), Mario Botta擅長建築在時間性和場所性的空間表現, 這種現象學“回到身體性”的建築思潮, 有別於現在主義的“去身體性”, 啟動了我這次和大家分享瑞士建築的開始, 從瑞士建築在瑞士, 到瑞士建築在台灣. (texts by 賴怡成)


Mario Botta was born in Mendrisio in 1943. After serving an apprenticeship as a technical draughtsman, he went on to study architecture in Venice. His encounters with both Le Corbusier and Louis I. Kahn marked him deeply. He founded his ...

Architecture

In designing the Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel, Mario Botta had two guiding principles: he wanted to keep in mind the institution’s purpose, namely to present and showcase Dürrenmatt’s oeuvre, and he sought to make the most of certain site-specific landscape features. Botta’s elegant solution to the restrictions imposed by the site’s topography was to create a large, curving exhibition room that fits into the slope under Dürrenmatt’s existing house. Each of the architectural elements — the entrance tower, the staircases on four levels opening vistas in depth, and the large exhibition room within the “belly of the earth” — all bring to mind the constructions that are omnipresent in Dürrenmatt’s writings: the towers, the cavernous spaces and the labyrinths.



A Tower and a Belly -Excerpts of an Interview with Mario Botta

Hollenstein, Roman: A tower and a Belly. An Interview with Mario Botta, from: Mario Botta. Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel, edited by Peter Edwin Erismann, Basel, Boston, Berlin 2000, pp. 78-99.


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