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    Peter Zumthor is an architect from Switzerland who was born in 1943. He trained as a cabinet maker and studied architecture. Zumthor has received many awards for his work and has taught architecture at several universities. One of his most famous buildings is the Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland, which is praised for its simple details that create atmospheric spaces.

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    Peter Zumthor

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    Peter Zumthor is an architect from Switzerland who was born in 1943. He trained as a cabinet maker and studied architecture. Zumthor has received many awards for his work and has taught architecture at several universities. One of his most famous buildings is the Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland, which is praised for its simple details that create atmospheric spaces.

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    Peter Zumthor is an architect from Switzerland who was born in 1943. He trained as a cabinet maker and studied architecture. Zumthor has received many awards for his work and has taught architecture at several universities. One of his most famous buildings is the Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland, which is praised for its simple details that create atmospheric spaces.

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    Peter Zumthor was born on April 26, 1943, the son of a cabinet maker, Oscar Zumthor, in Basel,

    Switzerland. He trained as a cabinet maker from 1958 to 1962. From 1963-67, he studied at the
    Kunstgewerbeschule, Vorkurs and Fachklasse with further studies in design at Pratt Institute in New
    York.

    In 1967, he was employed by the Canton of Graubünden (Switzerland) in the Department for the
    Preservation of Monuments working as a building and planning consultant and architectural ana-
    lyst of historical villages, in addition to realizing some restorations. He established his own practice
    in 1979 in Haldenstein, Switzerland where he still works with a small staff of fifteen. Zumthor is
    married to Annalisa Zumthor-Cuorad. They have three children, all adults, Anna Katharina, Peter
    Conradin, and Jon Paulin, and two grandchildren.

    Since 1996, he has been a professor at the Academy of Architecture, Universitá della Svizzera Italia-
    na, Mendrisio. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Southern California Insti-
    tute of Architecture and SCI-ARC in Los Angeles in 1988; at the Technische Universität, Munich in
    1989; and at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University in 1999.

    His many awards include the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association in 2008 as well as
    the Carlsberg Architecture Prize in Denmark in 1998, and the Mies van der Rohe Award for Euro-
    pean Architecture in 1999. In 2006, he received the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Archi-
    tecture from the University of Virginia. The American Academy of Arts and Letters bestowed the
    Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture in 2008.

    In the recent book published by Barrons Educational Series, Inc. titled, Architectura, Elements of
    Architectural Style, with the distinguished architectural historian from Australia, Professor Miles
    Lewis, as general editor, the Zumthor’s Thermal Bath building at Vals is described as “a superb
    example of simple detailing that is used to create highly atmospheric spaces. The design contrasts
    cool, gray stone walls with the warmth of bronze railings, and light and water are employed to sculpt
    the spaces. The horizontal joints of the stonework mimic the horizontal lines of the water, and there
    is a subtle change in the texture of the stone at the waterline. Skylights inserted into narrow slots in
    the ceiling create a dramatic line of light that accentuates the fluidity of the water. Every detail of the
    building thus reinforces the importance of the bath on a variety of levels.”

    In the book titled Thinking Architecture, first published by Birkhauser in 1998, Zumthor set down
    in his own words a philosophy of architecture. One sample of his thoughts is as follows: “I believe
    that architecture today needs to reflect on the tasks and possibilities which are inherently its own.
    Architecture is not a vehicle or a symbol for things that do not belong to its essence. In a society that
    celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and
    meanings, and speak its own language. I believe that the language of architecture is not a question
    of a specific style. Every building is built for a specific use in a specific place and for a specific soci-
    ety. My buildings try to answer the questions that emerge from these simple facts as precisely and
    critically as they can.”

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