A key figure in modern Swiss architecture, winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize, Peter Zumthor (1943) studied interior architecture at the Pratt Institute in New York and at Schule für Gestaltung in Basel. Important experiences early in his career include work as a carpenter specialising in furniture and consulting services for the protection of historic constructions in Grisons canton (1968-1979), which inspired him to write a number of monographs on villages in the canton.
Zumthor has been based in Haldenstein since 1979, though he has also taught at prestigious universities such as Los Angeles and Munich and at the Architecture Academy in Mendrisio. His architecture is characterised “by strong ties with place, and in his first projects he drew on typically historicising forms and types” (Kubler): examples include the Rath twin house in Haldenstein and the school in Churwalden (1982-1983). Zumthor later came up with a style of “great conceptual and executive rigour”, a direct consequence of his theoretical and critical reflection, always paying careful attention to details and to choice of materials.
In this personal style of his, “references to archetypal forms and innovative inspiration create an original synthesis without ever incurring gratuitous emphasis” (Treccani). His projects in Grisons canton in the late eighties and the nineties include shelters over the Roman excavations in Chur (1986); his studio in Haldenstein (1986); the chapel of Saint Benedict in Somvix (1989); a seniors’ home in Chur-Masans (1993); and restoration of the Gugalum home in Safiental (1993). Particularly evocative projects include the famous spa complex in Vals (1996, with E. Kob and C. Schedler) and the wooden Swiss pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hannover. In Austria, he built Kunsthaus contemporary art museum in Bregenz - KUB (1997), while in Berlin he designed the Topographie des Terrors international documentation centre (2002). Publications particularly worthy of note include: Thinking architecture (1998); Peter Zumthor works. Buildings and projects 1979-1997 (1998); Atmospheres (2006).
A key figure in modern Swiss architecture, winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize, Peter Zumthor (1943) studied interior architecture at the Pratt Institute in New York and at Schule für Gestaltung in Basel. Important experiences early in his career include work as a carpenter specialising in furniture and consulting services for the protection of historic constructions in Grisons canton (1968-1979), which inspired him to write a number of monographs on villages in the canton. Zumthor has been based in Haldenstein since 1979, though he has also taught at prestigious universities such as Los Angeles and Munich and at the Architecture Academy in Mendrisio. His architecture is characterised “by strong ties with place, and in his first projects he drew on typically historicising forms and types” (Kubler): examples include the Rath twin house in Haldenstein and the school in Churwalden (1982-1983). Zumthor later came up with a style of “great conceptual and executive rigour”, a direct consequence of his theoretical and critical reflection, always paying careful attention to details and to choice of materials.In this personal style of his, “references to archetypal forms and innovative inspiration create an original synthesis without ever incurring gratuitous emphasis” (Treccani). His projects in Grisons canton in the late eighties and the nineties include shelters over the Roman excavations in Chur (1986); his studio in Haldenstein (1986); the chapel of Saint Benedict in Somvix (1989); a seniors’ home in Chur-Masans (1993); and restoration of the Gugalum home in Safiental (1993). Particularly evocative projects include the famous spa complex in Vals (1996, with E. Kob and C. Schedler) and the wooden Swiss pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hannover. In Austria, he built Kunsthaus contemporary art museum in Bregenz - KUB (1997), while in Berlin he designed the Topographie des Terrors international documentation centre (2002). Publications particularly worthy of note include: Thinking architecture (1998); Peter Zumthor works. Buildings and projects 1979-1997 (1998); Atmospheres (2006).
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