Peter Zumthor   United States   Since 2008 Peter Zumthor has been working on the design of a new building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The latest images of this project which gives LACMA an additional 36,000 square meters have been made public.

Peter Zumthor   United Kingdom   This rental vacation house – the Swiss architect’s first permanent construction within the United Kingdom – is located in Devon County, in a beautiful southern English landscape of meadows and trees. The house replaces a residence that was demolished

Peter Zumthor   United Kingdom   Through large windows and glass panes, the rental vacation house designed by Peter Zumthor frames spectacular views of the southern English landscape, in Devon County. What is the Swiss architect’s first permanent construction in the United Kingdom i

Peter Zumthor   Norway   Facing the sea, a memorial made of wood, plastic and glass shelters a flame that commemorates the 17th-century burning of supposed witches on a Norwegian island. 

Peter Zumthor   Germany   Dedicada al santo suizo Nicolás von der Flüe (1417-1487), conocido como hermano Klaus, la capilla fue encargada por la familia de granjeros Hermann-Josef Scheidtweiler y su esposa Trudel. Construida en su mayor parte por ellos mismos con la ayuda de

Peter Zumthor   Germany   En 1997, la archidiócesis de Colonia convocó un concurso para la construcción de un nuevo museo que albergara su importante colección artística, en un solar especialmente marcado por la historia. En él se situaba la antigua iglesia gótica de Santa Ko

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The New York Review of Books    Joseph Giovannini   There are two demolitions going on at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the largest encyclopedic museum west of the Mississippi... (‘The Redesign of LACMA: An Exchange’ Michael Govan, reply by Joseph Giovannini)...

The development of the highways in Norway left the vernacular routes that ran along national roads in disuse. This circumstance is common to the rest of Europe, but was especially dramatic in the Nordic country because of the extraordinary landscapes

LA Review of Books   Joseph Giovannini   Joseph Giovannini scrutinizes LACMA director Michael Govan’s failures and deceptions surrounding the museum’s renovations. Until about two weeks ago, announcements by Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, were always reassu

Peter Zumthor The Basel architect Peter Zumthor received the Gold Medal that, since 1848, the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) awards in recognition of the professional career of professionals which have had a meaningful influence, direct

Eduardo Prieto   Some architects are able to build with words. Others are suspicious of them, believing that the best platforms are buildings. This is the opinion of Peter Zumthor, a master of few words but reader of Handke and Berger, admirer of Beuys, and lover of

Peter Buchanan   Desde su primera edición en 2000, la convocatoria de los pabellones de la Galería Serpentine constituye un singular escaparate mediático donde se funden el arte y la arquitectura.

A lo largo de once años, las sucesivas ediciones del pabellón de verano de la londinense Serpentine Gallery han tenido como autores a algunas de las estrellas más rutilantes del panorama arquitectónico contemporáneo, como Rem Koolhaas, Kazuyo Sejima,

Siguiendo la estela de anteriores ediciones en las que participaron, entre otras figuras, Jean Nouvel, Rem Koolhaas o el reciente pritzker Souto de Moura, Peter Zumthor ha presentado las primeras imágenes de su propuesta para el pabellón temporal de

Peter Zumthor  After the French Nouvel, the Swiss Peter Zumthor was the 2009 laureate of the prestigious distinction granted annually by the Hyatt Foundation. The jury’s citation highlighted the timeless character of an oeuvre marked by the rele

La materialidad contundente de la arquitectura de Peter Zumthor parecía difícil de encajar en el actual imperio de lo efímero; sin embargo, el jurado del premio Pritzker ha destacado las cualidades intemporales de la obra del arquitecto suizo en la e

Peter Zumthor   En las casas de los Alpes es una antigua tradición que la estancia principal sea de muros de madera. Dos de los rasgos más característicos de la casa alpina típica son, precisamente, que los muros de la cocina (llamada en lengua romanche cha-da-feu,

Peter Zumthor Peter Zumthor began working as an architect and consultant at the Department for the Preservation of Monuments of the Swiss canton of Graubünden, later moving to Haldenstein, where, thirty years later, he still has his small studio. In

Thomas Durisch   Zúrich  2014  
Scheidegger & Spiess   - 856 Pages 

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011