“They were conventional renderings, which I personally don't like so much," Peter Zumthor states in an interview with CLADnews, referring to the widely-criticized renderings of his proposed building for LACMA that were released in August. Relating that the renderings were created strictly for the purposes of an environmental review, Zumthor says his team is working on new images, made by photographing models (Zumthor is known to prefer models to digital renderings). “The models allow us to take pictures with natural daylight, the light of the sun, which makes a lot of difference,” he explains. “These will explain the building better.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Zumthor describes his plans in his typical spiritual language: “You’ll have this almost sacred, sublime kind of experience, but I would also like to accommodate the profane, the dirty, the normal, the everyday.” He also employs a forestial analogy to describe the placement of art in the proposed museum, which eschews traditional chronological or geographic strategies. “It's organised like a forest with clearings inside, where we have free choice to go to this clearing, or to the next. I would like to allow an experience of art where people can go and look at the art without didactics, without premature explanations, and make their own experience,” he states.

For more on the proposed Zumthor redesign of LACMA, follow these links:

• Following major donations, Peter Zumthor's LACMA redesign moves forward
• Raw Rendering Ranters: Zumthor's 'undercooked' LACMA redesign on Archinect Sessions #76
• Is Zumthor's inkblot the right size for LACMA's art?