Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor ( born April 26, 1943 in Basel, Switzerland ) is an internationally renowned Swiss architect and former conservators at the Memorial office in his home canton of Graubünden, Chur. For his life's work, he was honored in 2009 with a major architecture award, the Pritzker Prize.

Life

1943 Peter Zumthor was born the son of a master carpenter in Basel. His first training as a cabinet maker, he graduated with his father, then studied interior architecture and design at the School of Art Basel as well as architecture and industrial design at Pratt Institute in New York. For ten years he worked as an employee of Monuments of the canton of Graubünden. Peter Zumthor lives and works in stone heap at Churchill since 1979 with its own architectural office in Haldenstein ( around 20 employees).

As a former curator of monuments he has received about the Val Lumnezia and a historical building in alpine valleys.

In the architectural scene Zumthor is considered to be a loner, puts special emphasis on the selection of the materials used.

1993 Zumthor won the architecture competition in Berlin for the memorial and the Nazi documentation center Topography of Terror. After construction costs became EUR 38.8 million from the originally planned 22.5 million euros, figured out a feasibility study on possible additional 3 to 5 million euros. Stating this appeal, the State of Berlin Zumthor announced in May 2004 and wrote the competition from new. In the dispute over the demolition of the towers already built, the country could also prevail against Zumthor.

Peter Zumthor was a professor at the Accademia di Architettura of the Università della Svizzera italiana in Mendrisio.

Family

He is married to Annalisa Zumthor - Cuorad, a writer of Romansh literature, and the couple have three grown children. Zumthor plays in his free jazz with the double bass. His son Peter Conradin Zumthor is a music teacher and jazz drummer, he plays among others in the Lucas Niggli Drum Quartet.

Architectural Model Collection

The Kunsthaus Bregenz ( KUB ) has a collection of over 300 architectural models Zumthor that are archived by KUB since the local solo exhibition in 2007. They concern both realized and not built projects. There are constantly adding new models. Since 2012, a portion of this collection is issued in the post office building next to the Kunsthaus in exchange.

Gallery

Therme in Vals

Kunstmuseum Columba Cologne

Brother Klaus Field Chapel in Mechernich Guard village

Caplutta Sogn Benedetg in Sumvitg

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Shelters for excavation of Roman finds, Chur, 1986
  • Caplutta Sogn Benedetg in Sumvitg, Graubünden ( Switzerland ), 1989
  • Kunsthaus Bregenz ( Austria ), 1997
  • Sound body, the Swiss Pavilion Expo 2000 in Hanover at the Expo 2000 in Hannover (temporary construction)
  • Apartments for the elderly, Chur - Masans ( Switzerland ), 1993
  • Therme Vals ( Switzerland ), 1996
  • Documentation center Topography of Terror, Berlin (1st prize in competition 1993 draft partially realized in 1997, demolished in late 2004 by the State of Berlin )
  • House Zumthor, Haldenstein ( Switzerland ) (2005)
  • District school ( school house ) in the municipality Churwalden, Graubünden ( Switzerland )
  • Expansion board Briol, bathroom Three churches Barbian (South Tyrol, Italy)
  • Brother Klaus Field Chapel, yard Scheidtweiler, Mechernich Guard village ( Germany ), 2007
  • Columbaria, Art Museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, 2007
  • Pavilion Serpentine Gallery, London, 2011
  • Witch Museum in Vardo Norway, 2012

Exhibitions

  • 2012: architectural models, KUB collection showcase Kunsthaus Bregenz

Writings (selection )

  • Houses. Lars Müller, Baden 1998, ISBN 3-907044-42-8
  • Architectural thinking. Birkhauser Verlag, 1st edition, 1999, ISBN 3-7643 6100 X, second, expanded edition 2006, ISBN 3-7643-7496-9
  • How much light does a person need in order to live, and how much darkness? Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin, 2006.
  • Zumthor - Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award 2006 Wood in Culture Association, Helsinki 2006..
  • Therme Vals. Together with Hélène Binet and Sigrid Hauser. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2007, ISBN 3-85881-704- X.
  • Atmospheres. Architectural environments. The things around me. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7643-7494-5.

Literature (selection )

  • Nadine Haepke: Sacred productions in contemporary architecture. John Pawson - Peter Kulka - Peter Zumthor. Transcript, Bielefeld, ISBN 978-3-8376-2535-6
  • Manfred Sack: Peter Zumthor. Three concepts. Birkhäuser, Basel 1999, ISBN 3-7643-5744-4.
  • Katja Marek: National Identity and homeliness made ​​by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. Architecture and constructions of identity between stereotypes and image. Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-8364-5291-5
  • Andreas Denk: tin and lead, concrete and smoke. The Bruder Klaus Chapel by Peter Zumthor in village guard. In: The architect, 2007, No. 3, pp. 16 f
  • Moritz Holfelder: Peter Zumthor: The magic of the real. DOM Publishers, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3869221045. (Audio CD with descriptions of buildings and interview segments of the architect to his way of working, 75 minutes Booklet)
  • Toni Hildebrandt ( in conversation with Peter Zumthor ): architecture, image and design. In: Rheinsprung 11 Journal of Image criticism. 1 (2011 ), pp. 139-146. online ( PDF; 965 kB)

Movies

  • Pritzker Prize for Peter Zumthor. Reportage, Germany, 2009 Production: ZDF, aspects, first broadcast May 22, 2009
  • Peter Zumthor - The proper sense of the beautiful. Documentary, Germany, 2000, 58 min Written and directed by Ursula Boehm, Production: SWR, arte, First broadcast: February 7, 2001 in arte, Summary of ARD.
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