With the common purpose of acknowledging excellence in the field and promoting quality in the built environment, architectural prizes are having a heyday. In the decade of spectacle culture, architects have had an ever-growing mediatic presence, and
Peter Zumthor At the beginning of September, the Swiss Peter Zumthor (Basel, 1943) travelled to Copenhagen to receive the 200,000 ecus of the Carlsberg Prize from Queen Margarita of Denmark. The extraordinary critical appreciation and media impact o
Europe offers prizes to its architects while an atrocious war is fought elsewhere on the continent: the maiden abducted by the bull is embraced by death.
Los 200.000 ecus con los que está dotado el premio danés Carlsberg, que ha celebrado su tercera edición, lo convierten en el más sustancioso de los grandes galardones internacionales de arquitectura. El primer agraciado con el Carlsberg fue, en 1992,
The Carlsberg Prize recognizes the oeuvre of the Swiss Peter Zumthor, whose cult buildings are nurtured by material, place and memory.
