The early houses of Herzog & de Meuron set Patrick Lynch's imagination ablaze

摘要

My first encounter with the work of Herzog & de Meuron was in the bookshop at the School of Architecture of Barcelona in 1989. Shock is too brash a word to describe this encounter - it was more like recognition, something like love at first sight. In the practice's architecture of repetition and stacking, construction was celebrated in its nudity to become images of pressing intensity. The utter otherness of these inscrutable structures set my imagination off, dreaming of encounters in these strange spaces.