Peter Zumthor

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Peter Zumthor (2018)

Peter Zumthor (born April 26, 1943 in Basel ) is an internationally active Swiss architect and former monument conservator at the monument office in his canton of Grisons in Chur .

Life

Peter Zumthor was born in Basel in 1943 as the son of master carpenter Oscar Zumthor. He completed his first apprenticeship as a cabinet maker with his father, then he studied interior architecture and design at the Basel School of Applied Arts and architecture and industrial design at the Pratt Institute in New York . For ten years he worked as an employee in the preservation of monuments in the canton of Graubünden. Peter Zumthor lives and works in Haldenstein near Chur and has been running his own architectural office there with around 35 employees since 1979.

During his time as a monument conservator, he preserved historical buildings in alpine side valleys, such as the Val Lumnezia .

In the architectural scene, Zumthor is seen as a loner who places particular emphasis on the selection of the materials used - as well as on the shapes, so that no two buildings he designed are alike.

In 1993 Zumthor won the architecture competition in Berlin for the memorial and the Nazi documentation center Topography of Terror . After the originally planned 22.5 million euros building costs had become 38.8 million euros, a feasibility study put possible additional costs at 3 to 5 million euros. With this reason given, the state of Berlin announced Zumthor in May 2004 and re-announced the competition. In the dispute over the demolition of the towers that had already been built, the country was also able to prevail against Zumthor.

Peter Zumthor was a professor at the Accademia di Architettura of the Università della Svizzera italiana in Mendrisio . In 2009 he was awarded a major architecture prize, the Pritzker Prize, for his life's work .

family

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

Architectural model collection

The Kunsthaus Bregenz (KUB) has a collection of over 300 architectural models by Zumthor, which have been archived by the KUB since the solo exhibition there in 2007. They concern both realized and non-built projects. New models are constantly being added. Since 2012, part of this collection has been exhibited in the post office next to the Kunsthaus.

gallery

Awards

Works (selection)

Exhibitions

Fonts (selection)

  • Houses. Lars Müller, Baden 1998, ISBN 3-907044-42-8 .
  • Houses 1979–1997. Photos by Hélène Binet . Birkhäuser, Basel 1999, ISBN 3-7643-6098-4 .
  • Does beauty have a shape? In: Christoph Metzger on behalf of the International Music Institute Darmstadt (ed.): Music and architecture. 2003, ISBN 3-89727-227-X , p. 13.
  • Architecture thinking. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1999, ISBN 3-7643-6100-X . (Second, expanded edition 2006, ISBN 3-7643-7496-9 )
  • How much light does a person need to be able 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. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-85881-704-4 .
  • Atmospheres. Architectural environments. The things around me. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-7643-7494-2 .
  • Buildings and projects 1985–2013. edited by Thomas Durisch, 5 volumes. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-85881-723-5 .
  • The story in things. edited by P.Zumthor and Mari Landung, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2018.

literature

  • Christoph Metzger in conversation with Peter Zumthor: Stations of my compositional experience with musical architecture. In: Christoph Metzger on behalf of the International Music Institute Darmstadt (ed.): Music and architecture. Pfau, Saarbrücken 2003, ISBN 3-89727-227-X .
  • Nadine Haepke : Sacred productions in contemporary architecture. John Pawson - Peter Kulka - Peter Zumthor. transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2535-6 .
  • Toni Hildebrandt (in conversation with Peter Zumthor): Architecture, image and design. In: Rheinsprung 11th magazine for visual criticism. 1, 2011, pp. 139-146. ( online ; PDF; 965 kB)
  • Moritz Holfelder: Peter Zumthor: The magic of the real . DOM Publishers, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86922-104-5 . (Audio CD with descriptions of buildings and interview passages by the architect about his working method, 75 minutes + booklet)
  • Katja Marek: National identity and Swiss homeliness made by Peter Zumthor. Architecture and identity constructions between clichés and image . VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-8364-5291-5 .
  • Manfred Sack : Peter Zumthor. Three concepts . Birkhäuser, Basel 1999, ISBN 3-7643-5744-4 .

Movies and TV shows

  • Peter Zumthor - The obstinacy of the beautiful. Documentary, Germany, 2000, 58 min., Script and director: Ursula Böhm, production: SWR , arte , first broadcast: February 7, 2001 on arte, synopsis by ARD .
  • Pritzker Prize for Peter Zumthor. Report, Germany, 2009, production: ZDF , aspekte , first broadcast: May 22, 2009.
  • Architecture and atmosphere. Great moment of philosophy. Peter Zumthor in conversation with Yuri Steiner. First broadcast: June 18, 2017 on SRF 1. Summary and link to the broadcast

Web links

Commons : Peter Zumthor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Paul: "Slate is much more expensive than concrete" In: Berliner Zeitung . January 22, 2002.
  2. ↑ Pulse of Music. Rhythm - How do you make music with percussion instruments? ( Memento from July 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 77 kB). Workshop, 2008.
  3. ↑ Gudrun Rothaug: A praise of thoroughness. Architect Zumthor awarded. Hessischer Rundfunk , January 16, 2009)
  4. ↑ Spiritual dimension of building. ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: German Bishops' Conference , accessed on October 28, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dbk.de
  5. ^ British Architecture Prize for Peter Zumthor. ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Monopoly , September 27, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.monopol-magazin.de
  6. ↑ Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA) Nike 2013 - Nike for Atmosphere , accessed on June 25, 2013.
  7. ↑ Institute for International Architecture Documentation Munich, May 8, 2017
  8. ↑ Peter Zumthor. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 6, 2017 ; accessed on September 6, 2017 (Austrian German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kunsthaus-bregenz.at
  9. ^ Kunsthaus Bregenz: Zumthor's World
personal data
SURNAME Zumthor, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland