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{{Short description|Swiss architect (born 1943)}}
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'''Peter Zumthor''' ({{IPA|de|ˈpeːtɐ ˈtsuːmtoːɐ̯}}; born 26 April 1943) is a [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[architect]] whose work is frequently described as uncompromising and minimalist.<ref name=architizer>{{cite web |url=http://architizer.com/blog/peter-zumthor-is-not-god/ |title=Dear Architecture Journalists: Stop Worshipping Peter Zumthor! |last1=Newel |first1=Conrad|date=13 September 2013 |website=Architizer.com |access-date=27 April 2016}}</ref> Though managing a relatively small firm and not being a prolific architect, he is the winner of the 2009 [[Pritzker Prize]] and 2013 [[RIBA]] [[Royal 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 [[Cantons of Switzerland|canton]] of [[Graubünden]].<ref name=NYT01/> 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, Zumthor was able to incorporate his knowledge of materials into [[Modernist]] construction and detailing. His buildings explore the tactile and sensory qualities of spaces and materials while retaining a [[minimalist]] feel. It has been said that "Zumthor’s key building material is light."<ref name="swissinfo2023">{{Citation | last=Beutler | first=Christian | title=Peter Zumthor's key building material is light | newspaper=[[swissinfo.ch]] | date= 17 Dec 2023 | url= https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/peter-zumthor-s-key-building-material-is-light/49059570}}</ref>

==Career==
[[File:Kolumba.jpg|thumb|Kolumba Museum, [[Cologne]]]]

Zumthor founded his own firm in 1979. His practice grew quickly and he accepted more international projects.

Zumthor has taught at [[University of Southern California]] Institute of Architecture and SCI-ARC in Los Angeles (1988), the [[Technical University of Munich]] (1989), [[Tulane University]] (1992), and the [[Harvard Graduate School of Design]] (1999). Since 1996, he has been a professor at the [[Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio]].<ref name=daylight2011>The VELUX Foundations (2010), [https://thedaylightaward.com/peter-zumthor/ "Peter Zumthor: The Daylight Award by VELUX Stiftung 2010"], ''The Daylight Award''.</ref>

His best known projects are the [[Kunsthaus Bregenz]] (1997), a shimmering glass and concrete cube that overlooks [[Lake Constance]] (Bodensee) in Austria; the cave-like thermal baths in [[Vals, Switzerland]] (1999); the Swiss Pavilion for [[Expo 2000]] in Hannover, an all-timber structure intended to be recycled after the event; the [[Kolumba|Kolumba Diocesan Museum]] (2007), in Cologne; and the Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, on a farm near Wachendorf.

In 1993, Zumthor won the competition for a museum and documentation center on the horrors of Nazism to be built on the site of Gestapo headquarters in Berlin. Zumthor's submission called for an extended three-story building with a framework consisting of concrete rods. The project, called the [[Topography of Terror]], was partly built and then abandoned when the government decided not to go ahead for financial reasons. The unfinished building was demolished in 2004.<ref name=NYT01>[[Robin Pogrebin|Pogrebin, Robin]], (12 April 2009), [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/arts/design/13pritzker.html "Pritzker Prize Goes to Peter Zumthor"], ''The New York Times''.</ref> 

In 1999, Zumthor was selected as the only foreign architect to participate in Norway's National Tourist Routes Project, with two projects, the Memorial in Memory of the Victims of the Witch Trials in Varanger, a collaboration with [[Louise Bourgeois]] (completed in 2010), and a rest area/museum on the site of an abandoned zinc mine.<ref>Cathy Lang Ho (5 February 2010), [http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/33833/peter-zumthor-speaks/ Peter Zumthor Speaks] ''ARTINFO''.</ref>

For the [[Dia Art Foundation]] in [[Beacon, New York]], Zumthor designed a gallery that was to house the ''360° I Ching'' sculpture by [[Walter de Maria]]; though the project was never completed. Zumthor is the only foreign architect to participate, with two projects,{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} the [[Steilneset Memorial|Memorial in Memory of the Victims of the Witch Trials in Varanger]], a collaboration with [[Louise Bourgeois]] (2011),<ref name="Wallp01">Bell, Jonathan, [http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/steilneset-by-peter-zumthor-and-louise-bourgeois "Dark arts: Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois' brooding Steilneset memorial"], 4 July 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2017.</ref> and a rest area/museum on the site of the abandoned Allmannajuvet zinc mines, in operation from 1882 to 1898, in Norway (2016).<ref name="DEZ01">Frearson, Amy, [https://www.dezeen.com/2016/06/10/peter-zumthor-architecture-wooden-buildings-on-stilts-tourist-trail-norway-allamannajuvet-mine/ "Peter Zumthor creates buildings on stilts for tourist trail at a Norwegian mine"], ''dezeen.com'', 10 June 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2017.</ref> In November 2009, it was revealed that Zumthor is working on a major redesign for the campus of the [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]].<ref name="AN01">{{Citation | last=Lifson | first=Edward | title=A Bolt of Zumthor | newspaper=[[The Architect's Newspaper]] | date=24 November 2009 | url=https://archpaper.com/2009/11/a-bolt-of-zumthor/ }}</ref> Recently, he turned down an opportunity to consider a new library for [[Magdalen College]], Oxford. He was selected to design the [[Serpentine Gallery]]'s annual summer pavilion with designer Piet Oudolf in 2011.<ref>Jonathan Glancey (4 April 2011), [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/apr/04/peter-zumthor-serpentine-gallery-pavilion Peter Zumthor unveils secret garden for Serpentine pavilion] ''The Guardian''.</ref>
In 2023, the Werkraum Haus – designed 10 years earlier by Zumthor – showed 40 of his architectural models, including some that have never been shown to the public before.<ref name="domus2023">{{Citation | last=Brandoli | first=Lucia | title=Peter Zumthor's major exhibition of maquettes in Austria | newspaper= [[Domus (magazine) |Domus]] | date= 7 March 2023 | url= https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/gallery/2023/03/07/the-great-exhibition-of-peter-zumthors-maquettes-for-the-10th-anniversary-of-the-werkraum-haus.html}}</ref>

Currently, Zumthor works out of his small studio with around 30 employees, in [[Haldenstein]], near the city of [[Chur]], in [[Switzerland]].<ref>Michael Kimmelman (11 March 2011), [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/magazine/mag-13zumthor-t.html?ref=michaelkimmelman The Ascension of Peter Zumthor] ''New York Times''.</ref>

==Recognition==

In 1994, he was elected to the [[Academy of Arts, Berlin]].  In 1996, he was made an honorary member of the [[Bund Deutscher Architekten]] (BDA). In 1998, Zumthor received the [[Carlsberg Architectural Prize]] for his designs of the [[Kunsthaus Bregenz]] in Bregenz, Austria and the Thermal Baths at Vals, Switzerland (see below). He won the [[Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture]] in 1999. Recently, he was awarded [[Praemium Imperiale]] in (2008) and the [[Pritzker Architecture Prize]] (2009). In 2012, he was awarded the RIBA [[Royal Gold Medal]].<ref>Press Release (27 September 2012), [http://www.architecture.com/NewsAndPress/News/AwardsNews/News/2012/PeterZumthorawarded2013RoyalGoldMedalforarchitecture.aspx Peter Zumthor awarded 2013 Royal Gold Medal for architecture] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406234242/http://www.architecture.com//NewsAndPress/News/AwardsNews/News/2012/PeterZumthorawarded2013RoyalGoldMedalforarchitecture.aspx |date=6 April 2013 }} ''The Royal Institute of British Architects''.</ref> On the occasion of his 80th birthday in 2023, the F.A.Z. called Zumthor "the great magician of minimalism."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunst-und-architektur/der-architekt-peter-zumthor-wird-80-18847956.html|title=Drum prüfe sich zunächst der Bauherr|last=Alexander|first=Matthias | publisher = [[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]] |newspaper=Faz.net | date =  26 April 2023 | access-date=2023-05-03}}</ref>

==Literature==

Zumthor's work is largely unpublished in part because of his [[philosophy|philosophical]] belief that architecture must be experienced first hand.<ref>Nico Saieh (2 November 2010), [http://www.archdaily.com/85656/multiplicity-and-memory-talking-about-architecture-with-peter-zumthor/ Multiplicity and Memory: Talking About Architecture with Peter Zumthor] ''ArchDaily.com''.</ref> His published written work is mostly [[narrative]] and [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenological]].

===''Thinking Architecture''===

In ''Thinking Architecture'' Peter Zumthor expresses his motivation in designing buildings that have an emotional connection and possess a powerful and unmistakable presence and personality. It is illustrated throughout with color photographs by [[Laura J. Padgett]] of Zumthor's new home and studio in Haldenstein.

<blockquote>To me, buildings can have a beautiful silence that I associate with attributes such as composure, self-evidence, durability, presence, and integrity, and with warmth and sensuousness as well; a building that is being itself, being a building, not representing anything, just being. The sense that I try to instil into materials is beyond all rules of composition, and their tangibility, smell, and acoustic qualities are merely elements of the language we are obliged to use. Sense emerges when I succeed in bringing out the specific meanings of certain materials in my buildings, meanings that can only be perceived in just this way in this one building. When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, when I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history, and its sensuous qualities, images of other places start to invade this process of precise observation: images of places I know and that once impressed me, images of ordinary or special places places that I carry with me as inner visions of specific moods and qualities; images of architectural situations, which emanate from the world of art, or films, theater or literature.</blockquote>

===''Atmospheres''===

''Atmospheres'' is a poetics of architecture and a window into Zumthor's personal sources of inspiration. In nine short, illustrated chapters framed as a process of self-observation, Zumthor describes what he has on his mind as he sets about creating the atmosphere of his houses: images of spaces and buildings that affect him are every bit as important as particular pieces of music or books that inspire him.

From the composition and "presence" of the materials to the handling of proportions and the effect of light, this poetics of architecture enables the reader to recapitulate what really matters in the process of house design. In conclusion, Peter Zumthor has described what really constitutes an architectural atmosphere as "this singular density and mood, this feeling of presence, well-being, harmony, beauty...under whose spell I experience what I otherwise would not experience in precisely this way."

===''Peter Zumthor Therme Vals''===
[[File:Therme Vals wall structure, Vals, Graubünden, Switzerland - 20040530.jpg|thumb|Therme Vals, Switzerland]]
''Therme Vals'' is the only book-length study of this singular building. It features the architect's original sketches and plans for its design as well as [[Hélène Binet]]’s striking photographs of the structure. Architectural scholar Sigrid Hauser contributes essays on such topics as "Artemis/Diana," "Baptism," "Mikvah," and "Spring"—drawing out the connections between the elemental nature of the spa and mythology, bathing, and purity.

Annotations by Peter Zumthor on his design concept and the building process elucidate the structure's symbiotic relationship to its natural surroundings, revealing, for example, why he insisted on using locally quarried stone. Therme Vals's scenic design elements, and Zumthor's contributions to this book, reflect the architect's commitment to the essential and his disdain for needless architectural flourishes.<ref>{{cite book |url= http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=226061| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619215651/http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=226061 |archive-date=19 June 2010 |date= March 2007 |title=Peter Zumthor Therme Vals |editor-first=Peter |editor-last=Zumthor | isbn=9783858817044 |website=press.uchicago.edu| publisher=University of Chicago Press }}</ref>

===''Seeing Zumthor''===
''Seeing Zumthor'' represents a unique collaboration between Zumthor and Swiss photographer [[Hans Danuser]], containing Danuser's images of buildings created by Zumthor. More than twenty years ago, in a milestone event of twentieth-century architectural photography, Danuser photographed, at Zumthor's invitation, two buildings: the protective structure built for archaeological excavations in Chur and [[St Benedict's Chapel, Sumvitg|St Benedict's Chapel]] in [[Sumvitg]]. When first shown in exhibition, those photos ignited a lively debate that has been revived with a recent exhibition of Danuser's photographs of Zumthor's most famous work, the spa at Therme Vals. ''Seeing Zumthor'' collects these three important series of Danuser's pictures and includes essays by leading art historians exploring the relationship between the two seemingly different disciplines or architecture and photography.<ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=406544 |title=Edited by Köbi Gantenbein: Seeing Zumthor—Images by Hans Danuser |access-date=13 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416031247/http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=406544 |archive-date=16 April 2009 }}</ref>

=== ''Dear to Me'' ===
In summer 2017, Peter Zumthor curated the exhibition ''Dear to Me''<ref>''[https://www.park-books-specials.com/zumthor Dear to Me]''</ref> at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, marking the twentieth anniversary of one of his most famous designs. Part of the program were conversations with philosophers, curators, historians, composers, writers, photographers, collectors, and craftsmen that Zumthor had invited to contribute to the exhibition. His dialogues with them offer insights into the thoughts and practice of fascinating personalities. Together with his counterparts, he explores artistic preferences and practices, reasonings, as well as practical knowledge from artisanal experience. In ''Dear to Me'', Zumthor's equally serious and serene conversations with Anita Albus, [[Aleida Assmann]], [[Marcel Beyer]], Hélène Binet, Hannes Böhringer, Renate Breuss, [[Claudia Comte]], [[Bice Curiger]], [[Esther Kinsky]], Ralf Konersmann, Walter Lietha, Olga Neuwirth, Rebecca Saunders, [[Karl Schlögel]], Martin Seel, Rudolf Walli, and [[Wim Wenders]] are collected in seventeen booklets held together in an exquisitely manufactured box. [[Wim Wenders]] will also make a film about Zumthor.<ref name="domradio2024">{{Citation | title=Das Werk erfahrbar machen | newspaper=[[domradio.de]] | date= 12 September 2024 | url= https://www.domradio.de/artikel/wim-wenders-dreht-3d-film-ueber-star-architekt-peter-zumthor}}</ref> The short film „Notes From A Day In The Life Of An Architect“ focuses on two upcoming architectural projects: the extension of the [[Beyeler Foundation]] in Riehen near Basel and the new building for the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art.<ref name="filmstarts2026">{{Citation | title=Das Geheimnis der Orte | newspaper=[[filmstarts.de]] | date= 2025 | url= https://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/285136.html}}</ref>

==Personal==
Zumthor and his wife, Annalisa Zumthor-Cuorad, have three children.<ref name=NYT01/>

==Principal works==
* 1983 Elementary school Churwalden, Churwalden, [[Graubünden]], Switzerland.
* 1983 House Räth, [[Haldenstein]], Graubünden, Switzerland.
* 1986 Shelters for Roman archaeological site, [[Chur]], Graubünden, Switzerland.<ref>ArcDog. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQbrQunAWTs Shelter for Roman Ruins | Peter Zumthor]. ArcDog Film, Published on 21 October 2017</ref>
* 1986 Atelier Zumthor, [[Haldenstein]], Graubünden, Switzerland.
* 1989 [[St Benedict's Chapel, Sumvitg|Saint Benedict Chapel]], [[Sumvitg]], Graubünden, Switzerland.<ref>zumthor.org: [https://zumthor.org/project/benedict/ Saint Benedict Chapel]. Retrieved 3.1.2021.</ref>
* 1990 Art Museum [[Chur]], Graubünden, Switzerland.
* 1993 Residential home for the elderly, Masans, [[Chur]], Graubünden, Switzerland.
* 1994 Gugalun House, [[Versam]], Graubünden, Switzerland.<ref>[http://storiesofhouses.blogspot.com/2005/09/gugalun-house-by-peter-zumthor.html "The Gugalun House, by Peter Zumthor"] ''Stories of Houses'' blog.</ref>
* 1996 Spittelhof housing, [[Biel-Benken]], [[Basel-Landschaft|Basel]], Switzerland.
* 1996 [[Therme Vals]], Vals, Graubünden, Switzerland.<ref>zumthor.org: [https://zumthor.org/project/therme/ Therme Vals]. Retrieved 3.1.2021.</ref>
* 1997 [[Kunsthaus Bregenz]], Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria.<ref>zumthor.org: [https://zumthor.org/project/bregenz/ Kunsthaus Bregenz]. Retrieved 3.1.2021.</ref> 
* 1997 [[Topography of Terror]], International Exhibition and Documentation Centre, Berlin, Germany, partly built, abandoned, demolished in 2004.
* 1997–2000 Swiss Pavilion [[Expo 2000|EXPO 2000]], Hannover, Germany.
* 1997 Villa in Küsnacht am Zürichsee [[Küsnacht]], Switzerland.
* 1997 Lichtforum Zumtobel Staff, [[Zürich]], Switzerland.
* 2007 [[commons:Category:Feldkapelle (Wachendorf)|Bruder Klaus Kapelle]], Mechernich-Wachendorf, Germany.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/building/bruder-klaus-field-chapel/ | title=Bruder Klaus Field Chapel – Data, Photos & Plans }}</ref>
* 2007 [[Kolumba]] – Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Cologne, Germany.
* 2009 Leiser Ensemble, Leis/Vals, [[Graubünden]], [[Switzerland]]<ref>zumthorferienhaeuser.ch: [https://zumthorferienhaeuser.ch/]. Retrieved 16.05.2021.</ref>
* 2011 Steilneset Memorial for the Victims of the Witch Trials, [[Vardø (town)|Vardø]], Norway<ref name=Wallp01/><ref>[http://www.vardo.kommune.no/Vardo/Internett/Annet/Steilneset.aspx ''Steilneset minnested'' (engl.: Steilneset Memorial)] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120915075054/http://www.vardo.kommune.no/Vardo/Internett/Annet/Steilneset.aspx |date=15 September 2012 }} – Information about the memorial from the commune of Vardø. {{In lang|no|en}})</ref>
* 2011 [[Serpentine Gallery]] Pavilion 2011, London, England<ref>[http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/serpentine-gallery-pavilion-2011-peter-zumthor Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011] – Information about the 2011 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion</ref>
* 2012 [[Werkraum Bregenzerwald]] Hof 800, 6866 [[Andelsbuch]], [[Austria]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Werkraumhaus in Andelsbuch|url=https://www.bregenzerwald.at/aktivitaet/werkraumhaus-andelsbuch/|access-date=2021-03-08|website=Bregenzerwald in Vorarlberg|language=de}}</ref>
* 2016 Rest area/museum, [[Allmannajuvet]] zinc mines, Norway<ref name=DEZ01/>
* 2018 'Secular Retreat' summer villa for [[Living Architecture]], [[Salcombe]], [[Devon]], England<ref>{{cite web |last1=McCormick |first1=Megan |title=Architects' summer retreats |url=https://architecturetoday.co.uk/architects-summer-retreats/ |website=Architecture Today |date=22 August 2023 |access-date=8 September 2023}}</ref>
* 2018–24 (under construction) [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art#Zumthor proposal|LACMA]], Los Angeles, CA.<ref name=AN01/><ref>Nagourney, Adam, [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/arts/design/michael-govan-lacma-director.html "Is This Los Angeles’s $600 Million Man?"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 18 January 2017. The headline refers to museum director [[Michael Govan]] and the museum's need to raise the balance of the rebuilding price tag in 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2017.</ref>

<gallery>
Bregenz asv2022-10 img28 Kunsthaus.jpg|Kunsthaus Bregenz
Therme_Vals_facade,_Vals,_Graubünden,_Switzerland_-_20051009.jpg|[[Therme Vals]]
St Benedict Chapel.jpg|St. Benedict Chapel
Wachendorf-Feldkapelle-Bruder-Klaus.jpg|Bruder Klaus Chapel
Kolumba.jpg|Kolumba—Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum
</gallery>

==Awards==
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*1987, 2017: [[Auszeichnungen für gute Bauten Graubünden]], Switzerland.
*1989: [[Heinrich Tessenow#Heinrich Tessenow Medal|Heinrich Tessenow medal]], Technische Universität Hannover, Germany.
*1991: Gulam, European wood-glue prize.
*1992: Internationaler Architekturpreis für Neues Bauen in den Alpen, Graubünden, Switzerland.
*1993: Best Building 1993 award from Swiss tc's [[10vor10]], Graubünden, Switzerland.
*1994: Auszeichnung guter Bauten im Kanton Graubünden, Switzerland.
*1995: International Prize for Stone Architecture, Fiera di Verona, Italy.
*1995: Internationaler Architekturpreis für Neues Bauen in den Alpen, Graubünden, Switzerland.
*1996: [[Erich-Schelling-Preis]] für Architektur, Erich-Schelling-Stiftung, Germany.
*1998: [[European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture]] (aka Mies van der Rohe Award) for [[Kunsthaus Bregenz]].
*1998: [[Carlsberg Architectural Prize]].
*2006: Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award.
*2006: [[Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture|Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture]], University of Virginia.
*2008: [[Praemium Imperiale]], Japan Arts Association
*2009: [[Pritzker Prize]]
*2013: [[RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal|Royal Gold Medal for 2013]], announced September 2012, award ceremony February 2013<ref>{{cite web|last=Waite|first=Richard|title=Breaking news: Zumthor wins Royal Gold Medal|date=27 September 2012 |url=http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/breaking-news-zumthor-wins-royal-gold-medal/8636366.article|publisher=RIBA, Architects Journal|access-date=1 October 2012}}</ref>
*2017: [[Großer BDA Preis]]<ref name="Tagesspiegel 2017 d318">{{cite web | title=Bund Deutscher Architekten: Architekt Peter Zumthor erhält den Großen BDA-Preis | website=[[Der Tagesspiegel]] | date=6 May 2017 | url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/architekt-peter-zumthor-erhalt-den-grossen-bda-preis-3828760.html | language=de | access-date=18 November 2023}}</ref>
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== Former co-workers and assistants ==
* 1981–1987: [[Jürg Conzett]]
* 1984–1988: Valentin Bearth
* Andrea Deplazes
* 1985: Conradin Clavuot
* 1990–199?: Donatella Fioretti
* 1993–1996: Durisch Nolli|Pia Durisch (Assistant)
* 1993–1998: Daniel Bosshard
* 1996–1998: Gordian Blumenthal
* 1997–1998: Bosshard Vaquer|Meritxell Vaquer i Fernàndez
* 2000: Uta Graff
* 2001–2002: Francesca Torzo
* 2003–2006: Clemens Nuyken
* Peter Hutter
See the [[:de:Peter Zumthor|German Wikipedia]] for details.

== References ==
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==External links==
{{Commons}}
* {{NYTtopic|people/z/peter_zumthor}}
* [https://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1890768,00.html Architect Peter Zumthor] photo gallery at ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', 2009
* [http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-plank/tnr-slideshow-the-pritzker-prize-winner "Slideshow: The Pritzker Prize Winner]," [[Sarah Williams Goldhagen]], ''[[The New Republic]]'', 16 April 2009
* [http://www.klatmagazine.com/architecture/peter-zumthor-interview-back-to-the-future-07/8205 Interview with Peter Zumthor] Interview by Francesco Garutti ''[[Klat Magazine|Klat magazine]]'', 2011
* [http://rheinsprung11.unibas.ch/archiv/ausgabe-01/dialog.html Conversation with Peter Zumthor and Toni Hildebrandt]
* [http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/serpentine-gallery-pavilion-2011-peter-zumthor Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011]—designed by Peter Zumthor
* [http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/peter-zumthor-different-kinds-silence Channel.louisiana.dk: "Different Kinds of Silence" (2015 video)]—interview of Peter Zumthor by Louisiana Channel
* [https://zumthor.org/ zumthor.org]—presentation of projects
* [https://www.park-books-specials.com/zumthor Park Books Specials]—presentation of his latest book

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