Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has been awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2009 for his work that combines a strong aesthetic presence with thoughtful design. With a rich background in architectural conservation and significant projects like the Therme Vals and the Kolumba Museum, Zumthor emphasizes the tactile qualities of materials in his minimalist architectural style. Born in 1943 in Basel, Switzerland, he continues to teach architecture while contributing to notable structures across Europe.

2. • Swiss architect Peter
Zumthor wins Pritzker
Prize. "All of his
buildings have a strong,
timeless presence. He
has a rare talent of
combining clear and
rigorous thought with a
truly poetic dimension,
resulting in works that
never cease to inspire.“
• http://pinterest.com/jbutl
er12009/peter-zumthor/

3. • Born on: 26 April 1943
• Swiss architect
• Born in: Basel,
Switzerland
• Winner of the
2009 Pritzker
Prize and
2013 RIBA Royal Gold
Medal.

4. • The son of a cabinet-maker.
• 1958: He apprenticed to a
carpenter
• 1963: studied at
the Kunstgewerbeschule in
his native city
• 1966: Zumthor studied
industrial design and
architecture as an exchange
student at Pratt Institute in
New York.
• 1968: Became
conservationist architect for
the Department for the
Preservation of Monuments
of
the canton of Graubünden.
• 1979 : founded his own firm
in.
• TEACHING:
• Southern California Institute
of Architecture in Los
Angeles (1988),
• Technical University of
Munich (1989),
• Tulane University (1992),
• Harvard Graduate School of
Design (1999).
• Since 1996, he is professor at
the Accademia di Architettura
di Mendrisio

5. • His buildings explore
the tactile and sensory
qualities of spaces and
materials while retaining
a minimalist feel.
• His work on historic
restoration projects
gave him a further
understanding of
construction and the
qualities of different
rustic building materials.
• As his practice
developed, Zumthor
was able to incorporate
his knowledge of
materials
into Modernist construct
ion and detailing.

6. • 1986
• SWITZERLA
ND

12. • 1988
• SUMVITG,
SWITZERLAND

18. • 1993
• Cadonaustras
se 71-75,
SWITZERLAN
D

19. • The twenty-two flats of the residential development for the
elderly in Masans near Chur are occupied by senior citizens
still able to run their own households, but happy to use the
services offered by the nursing home behind their own building
• ."Many of the residents grew up in mountain villages around
the area. They have always lived in the country and feel at
home with the traditional building materials used here – tuff,
larch, pine, maple, solid wood flooring and wooden panelling.
• "The residents are welcome to furnish as they please their
section of the large entrance porch to the east, which they
overlook from their kitchen windows, and they make ample
use of this opportunity. The sheltered balcony niches and the
living room bow (bay) windows on the other side face west, up
the valley, towards the setting sun."
• ~Peter Zumthor, 2009 Pritzker Prize Laureate

22. • 1996
• HOTEL THEME 7132
VALS, SWITZERLAND

23. • People from all over the world travel to Vals. The Therme by Peter
Zumthor is received as a "lesson in courage and aesthetics" in the
history of architecture. As early as 1998, two years after opening, it
was declared a National Monument.
Also the hotel is dedicated to the architecture.
• The three neighbouring houses and the main house are witnesses of
an architectural era,
enlivened by accents of timeless design.
• Top of the hotel building is nestled in the banana-shaped hill with an
unobstructed view of the opposite- opposite, steep mats and the
towering mountains behind hilltops. The same glance, offers the
visitor in the spa, but the image appears more concise, sharpened
by the scope of Vals gneiss and as light-catching contrast to the
dark vaults of the baths. Archaic mountains and modern architecture
merge.
• "The Therme Vals is the masterpiece of Peter Zumthor. The award-
winning architecture is also a place of enlightenment - just because it
pays homage to the shadows.

28. • 1993 – 1997
• Karl Tizian Platz 6900 Bregenz,
AUSTRIA
• “The art museum stands in the
light of Lake Constance. It is
made of glass and steel and a
cast concrete stone mass
which endows the interior of the
building with texture and spatial
composition. From the outside,
the building looks like a lamp. It
absorbs the changing light of
the sky, the haze of the lake, it
reflects light and colour and
gives an intimation of its inner
life according to the angle of
vision, the daylight, and the
weather.”
—Peter Zumthor

29. • In August 1993 the district administration office Bregenz
issued the building permit for the construction of a new
art museum. The plans and negotiations had already
begun in 1989. The design of Swiss architect Peter
Zumthor of Haldenstein near Chur had been awarded
first prize in the architectural competition.
• Work on the new building began in 1994; the roofing
ceremony was celebrated in November 1996.
• By the end of June 1997, the administration building was
completed, in July the museum building followed.
• The Kunsthaus was opened on July 25, 1997.

35. • BUILT IN: 2007
• FOUND IN:
Germany
A small concrete chapel on the
edge of a field built by local
farmers.
It was cast in concrete around a
cluster of 120 tree trunks, cut from
a local forest, which were then
slowly smoked away.
The meticulous arrangement of
the trees into a tear or leaf shape
created the oculus that provides
the only light for the small dark
space. The chapel was built to
honor Nicholas von Flue, the
patron saint of Switzerland also
known as Bruder Klaus, and
contains his statue along with a
single bench and some candles.

43. • Is an art museum
in Cologne, Germany. It is
located on the site of the
former St. Columba church,
and run by the Archdiocese
of Cologne. It is one of the
oldest museums in the city,
alongside the Wallraf-
Richartz Museum.

44. • Founded by the Society for Christian Art in 1853, and taken over by
the Archdiocese of Cologne in 1989.
• Until 2007 it was located near Cologne Cathedral.
• Its new home, built from 2003–07, was designed by Peter
Zumthor and inaugurated by Joachim Meisner.
• The site was originally occupied by the romanesque Church of St.
Columba, which was destroyed in World War II and replaced in 1950
by a Gottfried Böhm chapel nicknamed the "Madonna of the Ruins".
• The new structure shares its site with the ruins of the Gothic church
and the 1950s chapel, wrapping a perforated grey brick facade like a
cloak around both, and also around the museum. The sixteen
exhibition rooms possess varying qualities with regard to incoming
daylight, size, proportion, and pathways. The work on the project
yielded the following reduction: light gray brick walls (Kolumba
stones) and clay plaster, flooring made of Jura limestone, terrazzo,
and mortar, ceilings made of a poured mortar shell, window frames,
doors, casings and fittings of steel, wall paneling and furniture of
wood, textiles and leather, curtains of leather and silk.

48. • http://www.archdaily.c
om/72192/kolumba-
musuem-peter-
zumthor/

57. • Architect Peter Zumthor designed this memorial on an
island in Norway to commemorate suspected witches
who were burned at the stake there in the seventeenth
century (photographs by Andrew Meredith).
• The Steilneset Memorial in Vardø comprises two
structures, one conceived entirely by Zumthor and a
second housing an installation by the late Louise
Bourgeois (1911-2010).

65. • Born on: 1962
• Born in: Maracaibo
(Venezuela)
• Swiss architect
• Graduated at the Swiss
Federal Institute of
Technology in Zurich
Miroslav Sik and Fabio
Reinhart.
• Got his Masters in
Architecture in 1988

66. • 2001-2003 he was a guest lecturer at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology.
• 2003 he was assistant professor (tenure track) and 2008
Professor of Architecture and Design at the ETH.
• He is a member of the Swiss Association of Engineers and
Architects.
• He previously worked as a photographer in the 1980s and
early '90s. This work, in turn, deeply influenced his
architectural approach.
• He was a design architect in the office of Rudolf Fontana from
1991 to 1993.
• After extensive published work in the field of architectural
photography, he opened his own architectural office in Zurich
in 1993. Christian Kerez has been a visiting professor at the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich since 2001 and
was recently been appointed as Assistant Professor in Design
and Architecture. Further, he received the 1998 Swiss art
scholarship..

67. • His architecture has often been linked to the rawness of
Konkrete Kunst [concrete art] and to the bareness of
infrastructural works for which he has an admitted
fascination.
• His Projects include:
• A Chapel in Oberrealta
• The Liechtenstein Art Museum (in collaboration with Morger and
Degelo) (2000)
• An Apartment Building in Forsterstrasse
• Schools in Breiten and Leutschenbach
• The Warsaw Museum of Modern Art
• The Holcim Competence Center

68. • Year: 2000
• Designed by: Christian
Kerez, with Meinrad Morger
and Heinrich Degelo.
• The mysterious, highly
tactile black box form is of
tinted concrete and black
basalt stone embedded with
pebbles from the Rhine.
• Inside, the black box
becomes a white cube.
Arranged around two
staircases, the galleries
have a precise clarity, while
the plan enables diagonal
views through the building.

73. • Kerez's 2003
Forsterstrasse
apartment project is
spread over five
levels. The internal
planning is
reminiscent of Mies's
brick wall houses: a
series of orthogonal
perpendicular walls
defining individual
spaces that flow from
one to the other.

75. • 2007: Single Wall
House in Zurich is an
apparently simple
project, but is in fact
sophisticated both
structurally and
spatially.
• It is two houses in a
single structure where
the volume has been
split both vertically and
horizontally.
• The party wall zig-zags,
taking a different line on
each of the three floors,
add to the interest.

76. • On a small and narrow plot, overlooking the heart of
Zurich, the architect has built a structure containing two
houses.
• The wall is formed in reinforced concrete as is each floor
plate, which is cantilevered from it, so that there are no
perimeter columns to obstruct the views.
• The above ground external walls are completely glazed;
some sections can be slid open for ventilation. External
roller blinds located along the edge of the floor slabs can
be lowered to control solar gain and help with privacy.

79. • Leutschenbach School
in Zurich (2009) breaks
new ground in the
school design, bringing
together all functions
under one roof:
• classrooms, cafeteria,
music rooms, meeting
rooms and gym.
• Unusually, the gym hall
is on the top floor
instead of being
submerged
underground.

83. • http://www.kerez.ch/
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m/watch?v=srONiu7E
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84. • http://mapolis.com/en/organisation/Christian_Kerez_Architekt#
!profile
• http://mapolis.com/en/hub/architecturalfirms/top-100-architects
• http://www.theberlage.nl/persons/christian_kerez
• http://www.architecture.com/Awards/RIBAInternationalFellows
hips/InternationalFellowships2012.aspx#.UdJ3vfnU_jA
• http://www.helenebinet.com/photography.html
http://www.danda.be/gallery/architect/peter-zumthor/
• http://www.therme-
vals.ch/de/therme/architektur/stein_und_wasser/
• http://www.kerez.ch/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolumba
• http://www.dezeen.com/2012/01/03/steilneset-memorial-by-
peter-zumthor-and-louise-bourgeois/