In 1967, he was employed by the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland in the Department for the Preservation of Monuments to realize some restorations. He established his own practice in 1979 in Haldenstein, Switzerland. Since 1996, he has been a professor at L'Accademia di architettura at Universitá della Svizzera Italiana, Mendrisio. Zumthor won many awards, including the Carlsberg Architecture Prize in Denmark in 1998 and the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 1999. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize for his oeuvre in 2009.
Peter Zumthor
Architect
Peter Zumthor (1943) has been trained as a cabinet maker in his father’s studio. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Vorkurs and Fachklasse with further studies in design at Pratt Institute in New York.
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