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Spotlight: Peter Zumthor
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Known for his sensuous materiality and attention to place, 2009 Pritzker LaureatePeter Zumthor (born April 26, 1943) is one the most revered architects of the 21st century. Shooting to fame on the back of The Therme Vals and Kunsthaus Bregenz, completed just a year apart in 1996 and 1997, his work privileges the experiential qualities of individual buildings over the technological, cultural and theoretical focus often favored by his contemporaries.
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As a teenager, Zumthor's first job was as an apprentice to a carpenter, and after studying architecture in his native Basel and then in New York, he worked as a conservation architect in Graubünden. Both of these early jobs gave him experience of craft construction and a delicate understanding of materials, and indeed in a 2001 profile in Vanity Fair, Paul Goldberger describes how "all of his architecture has the qualities a great cabinetmaker brings to his work: it is precise, and its glory lies in the perfection of its d
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Peter Zumthor
Swiss architect (born 1943)
Peter Zumthor (German pronunciation:[ˈpeːtɐˈtsuːmtoːɐ̯]; born 26 April 1943) is a Swissarchitect whose work is frequently described as uncompromising and minimalist.[1] Though managing a relatively small firm, he is the winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize and 2013 RIBARoyal Gold Medal.
Early life
Zumthor was born in Basel, Switzerland. His father was a cabinet-maker, which exposed him to design from an early age and led him to become an apprentice for a carpenter later in 1958. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (arts and crafts school) in his native city starting in 1963.
In 1966, Zumthor studied industrial design and architecture as an exchange student at Pratt Institute in New York. In 1968, he became conservationist architect for the Department for the Preservation of Monuments of the canton of Graubünden.[2] This work on historic restoration projects gave him a further understanding of construction and the qualities of different rustic building materials.
As his practice developed, Zumt
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Peter Zumthor
Of these last three works, the small religious building was to mark Zumthor’s international success, thanks to the balanced juxtaposition of archetypical elements from rural tradition – represented by the exterior of the chapel – and the extremely rigorous spatial solutions. Made entirely out of wood, with an almost maniacal attention to detail (throughout the project he experimented with models which reached a scale of 1:1), the chapel is one of the first examples of those forms of architecture with an atmosphere which was mystical and monastic, yet also emotional, linked to the physical experimentation of the architecture which characterised its form.
The same result was obtained in Vals, an intricate labyrinth of baths dug into the rock, which, in the monographic book he curated himself, Zumthor defined “a love story between stone and water” (1997). The main element of the project - in which areas, floors and even some furniture is covered entirely in locally-sourced gneiss - is however the sensation that the water, stone and light (which enters m
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