Saint Bruder Klaus Field Chapel
Bio: Peter was born April 26th, 1943 in Basel Switzerland, his father was a carpenter. Zumthor was an exchange student at the Pratt Institute in New York. There he studied industrial design and architecture. He became a conservationist architect in 1968 at the Department for the Preservation of Monuments in Graubunden. His historic restoration projects helped him to better understand the construction and the qualities of different types of building materials. As he became more practiced he could incorporate his knowledge of different materials into his Modernist construction style.