BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Switzerland is widely recognized as one of today's most important centers of modern architectural thought and Peter Zumthor, the 2004 Will and Nan Clarkson Visiting Chair in ...

Today, architecture’s highest award, the Pritzker Prize, was announced–and you’ve probably never heard of the the man who won, Peter Zumthor. He prefers it that way. He doesn’t have a Web site. He ...

The latest sign that LACMA director Michael Govan’s ambitious expansion plans for the institution are gathering steam came in the form of a presentation on the first day of the Venice Architecture ...

If further proof were needed that the world is in a chastened mood these days, there’s this: the Pritzker Architecture Prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field, will go this year to ...

Goodbye, black flower. Hello, Inca temple. In promoting their ambitious, expensive and controversial plan for a remade Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA Director Michael Govan and Swiss ...

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Brother Klaus Field Chapel, Wachendorf, Eifel, Germany. Photo: Walter Mair Peter Zumthor of Switzerland has been chosen as the 2009 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The formal ceremony for ...

The Swiss architect , 65, is this year's winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, one of the most visible and prestigious awards in the field.Gary Ebner The chapel has a simple wood interior. Before ...

Unoriginal, impractical, wasteful of valuable land, and the product of a secretive design process that has given a “mystic” architect too much power. That’s the view of Joseph Giovannini, who says ...

We haven’t met, but I have been following your work on a design for a new building at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art ever since word leaked (13 years ago) that you had been tapped for the ...

Architect Peter Zumthor lives and works in the remote village of Haldenstein in the Swiss Canton of Graubünden where he can keep the politics of architecture at a comfortable distance as he enjoys ...