Peter Zumthor

House-Atelier 1986

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Peter Zumthor
1943 Born in Switzerland, Basel.
1958 Studied Carpentry.
1963 Studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (arts and crafts school).
1966 Studied industrial design and architecture in New York.
1967 Got employed by the Canton of Graubünden (Switzerland) in the
Department for the Preservation of Monuments working as a building and
planning consultant and architectural analyst of historical villages, in
addition to realizing some restorations.
1979 Established his own Architecture Firm in Haldenstein, Switzerland.
He still works there, with a small group of fifteen people.
1996 Became a professor at the Academy of Architecture, Universitá
della Svizzera Italiana, Mendrisio.
1998 Published the book "Thinking Architecture". He also won the
"Carlsberg Architecture Prize" in Denmark.
1999 Won the "Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture".
2006 Published the book "Atmospheres: Architectural Environments,
Surrounding Objects". He also won the "Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Medal in Architecture from the University of Virginia".
2008 Won the "Praemium Imperiale" from the Japan Art Association and
the "Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture" by the American
Academy of Arts and Letters.
2009 Won "Pritzker Architecture Prize".
Haldenstein, Switzerland
Implantation and Sketch – Peter Zumthor
South Facade Ground Floor

North Facade First Floor

Section Section
Photography - Hélène Binet & Hans Danuser
Photography - Hélène Binet & Hans Danuser
Photography - Hélène Binet & Hans Danuser
Photography - Hélène Binet & Hans Danuser
Photography - Hélène Binet & Hans Danuser
Photography - Hélène Binet & Hans Danuser
“Living and working, family, children, grandchildren; spaces for living, spaces for working with
younger colleagues, or inventing and planning buildings – to me these things belong
together, and that is what the house was built for.“”
Peter Zumthor
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First Floor Sections

“What does this house want to become, as an object of use, as a sensorial body, structured
with a certain material and built with solidity, as a creation, as something that has been
shaped, that is at life’s service?”
Peter Zumthor