blog wunderlust: 28th July 2014

Architecture isn't a job persae, it is more of a lifestyle. We never really stop [doing] architecture no matter what we are doing.

Lance Herbst

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last word: End comes for notorious Venezuelan vertical slum

blog wunderlust: 9th December 2013

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

Peter Zumthor

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last word: The Trinidad Arcade

Star architect fear for his masterpiece

The remote alpine village of Vals in the eastern Swiss canton of Graubünden rose to fame when star architect Peter Zumthor built new thermal baths there in 1996. The spa is well known for its quarzite slab construction. Now the surrounding hotel complex is in need of renovation. An investor has offered to buy the whole site, but Zumthor fears for the future of his masterpiece.

Zumthor Videos - part 3, etc

The Thermae of Stone part 1



part 2



part 3

Zumthor Videos - part 2

Video tour of St. Benedicts chapel designed by Peter Zumthor in Sumvitg, Switzerland

and the winner is....

Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has become the 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate. His practice is often associated with the Kolumba Art Museum and more recently the Brother Klaus Chapel both in Germany. Perhaps his most recognisable work however is the Therme Vals, a sedate modern spa in Switzerland, that has acquired media sensation often being used as a backdrop fashion shoots and advertisements. Following Herzog de Meuron in 2001, he is the second Swiss architect to win the award.

The Pritzker Architecture Prize is the highest professional honour, bestowed on

living architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and committment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture

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