2A_eM: bathhouse

about

2AeM is a cooperative design effort composed of the 3 young Midwestern-sprung, spread-the world-out, out-and-out Architecture student-architects: nicholas m. reiter, Jessie Wilcox and Peter Nguyen. The team base was originally Milwaukee, WI but since has become a mobile abstraction or a state of mind. 2AeM is sometimes physical, sometimes sober, partially virtual, usually vocal, and all-the-time IN-it.

We are track jumpers, demons, villains and observing you right now. Design is the New and so are the Stakes.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

zumthor and the val baths

...video

what a Man. and what an Architect: cigar in one hand, stylish lead holder in the other.

a phenomenologist, speaking of a particular place, with particular materials, but with insight into what could be discerned as contemporary viewpoints, such as "all parts as a whole" and always experiencing the "imprint of the architect", "never escaping the presense of the architect." and those ideas which belong to both, perhaps: architecture of the 5 senses, architecture as instrument, materiality and comprehensive design.

oh, pete.