Zumthor the Shaman

Exercise 2. Make up the comparative and superlative degrees of the following adjectives and adverbs.

Large; clearly; many/much; big; good; wide; deep; beautiful; historic; long; late; bad; far; incredible; rigorous (строгий); little; tiny (крошечный); vertical; shaggy (лохматый); proud; simple; perfectly; turbulent; gently; clear(ly); great; poignant (острый); dynamical(ly); luminous (светящийся, светлый); democratically; necessary/necessarity; obvious; alaborate; physical; primarily; sensitive; silent; brown; important; meaningful; real; specific; architectural; brave; alpine (альпийский); blue; similar; wild; thermal; high; hot; remote; felicitous (счастливый, удачный); sociable; absolutely; perfect, generous.

Words to be remembered:

recipient – получатель; получающий

essence – сущность, существо; существование

diverse – иной, отличный (от ч.-л.); разнообразный, разный

response – ответ, отклик, реакция

site (n) – местоположение; участок (для строительства)

site (n) – располагать, выбирать место

sensitivity – чувственность

concern (n) – участие, дело, касательство, предприятие

concern (v) – иметь отношение

hamlet – деревня, деревушка

easterly – восточный, на восток, к/с востоку(-а)

piatzza – (базарная) площадь; веранда (USA)

gabled – остроконечный (о крыше)

barn – амбар, (сенной) сарай, гумно; некрасивое здание, конюшня

incredible – неправдоподобный, невероятный, потрясающий

bring up – воспитывать

rigor (n) – суровость

spell – (зд.)короткий промежуток времени

sophisticated – утонченный (о манерах), опытный, сложный (о понимании стиля)

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achieve (v) – достигать, добиваться, успешно выполнять

achievement – достижение, выполнение

acclaim (v) – шумно, бурно аплодировать, приветствовать, провозглашать

acclaim (n) – шумное приветствие

rustie – простой, грубый; неотесанный (- masonry – кладка из неотесанного камня)

shaggy – косматый, лохматый, ворсистый, шершавый, неотесанный

shingle – кровельная дранка, гонт; галька

expose (v) – подвергать действию (солнца, ветра), отставлять незащищенным

exposure (n) – выставление (на солнце, под дождь); подвергание (риску)

clerestory (n) – (арх.) верхний ряд окон

chapel – часовня

strew (strewed; strewed, strewn) (v) – разбрасывать; разбрызгивать; посыпать песком; усыпать (цветами); расстилать.

"canpanile – (арх.) – колокольня (отдельно стоящая)

taper – конус, слабый свет

slacken (v) – ослаблять, слабнуть

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Text 7A:

Peter Zumthor is the winner of the 1998 Carisberg Prize for Architecture. The two previous recipients were Tadao Ando and Juha Leiviska. Like them, Zumthor explores the essence of architecture in buildings which celebrate place and engage all the human senses. Jury member Peter Davey explains why Zumthor was premiated.

Peter Zumtho’s oeuvre is not large, but it is very diverse, because each of his buildings is a deeply considered particular response to site and programme. Each is clearly the product of a sensitivity concerned with place, materiality, space and light, and with human responses to these fundamental elements of architecture. And most of them have more in common than authorship, for until recently, allmost all the work has been in Graubünden, the most esterly canton of Switzerland, and in some ways, its most complex. Here Latin and Teutonic culture intermingle; Romansch and German are spoken in adjacent settlements and, while Chur (the cantonal capital) could almost be in northern Italy, the nearby village in which Zumthor lives and works is a cousin of hamlets in Bavaria and Austria.

Zumthor knows intimately the piazzas and arcades of the towns, and the big gabled farm houses and barns of the country-side throughout Graubünden, as he served for 12 years in the canton’s department for the preservation of monuments. He is (or has been up to now) a regionolist, for though he has learned about things like materials, climate and siting from old buildings, he understands the work of the past far too well to want to simply copy. He studied design at the Basel school of arts and crafts followed by a spell at the Pratt Institute in New York.

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