Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
In a surprise move a hardly world famous architect has been pushed into the headline by his selection for one of the most coveted awards in architecture: the Pritzker Award.
Photo BBC Peter Zumthor
Who can locate and photograph his building? There's the cathedral built by wrapping concrete around trees trunks and then burning away the wood or the perhaps an office building or museum near you? Even possibly you are near the famous Thermal Baths in Vals where his most famous work is located.
The Chicago Tribune writes:
"While little known to the public, 65-year-old Peter Zumthor is a legend within the profession, renowned for his reclusive, monklike image and for buildings, mostly small in scale, that are filled with spiritual overtones even if they aren't overtly religious. Among them: an art museum in Cologne, Germany, that gracefully incorporates the ruins of a Gothic church destroyed by Allied bombs during World War II, a tiny field chapel in the German countryside and a popular thermal bath house in Zumthor's home Swiss canton of Graubünden. "In paring down architecture to its barest yet most sumptuous essentials, he has reaffirmed architecture's indispensable place in a fragile world," reads the citation of the eight-member Pritzker Prize jury, which includes 1998 winner Renzo Piano."source
Read more here.
At least list where they are and then we can work together to learn about his work and see how well we can photograph his creations!
Asher
Photo BBC Peter Zumthor
Who can locate and photograph his building? There's the cathedral built by wrapping concrete around trees trunks and then burning away the wood or the perhaps an office building or museum near you? Even possibly you are near the famous Thermal Baths in Vals where his most famous work is located.
The Chicago Tribune writes:
"While little known to the public, 65-year-old Peter Zumthor is a legend within the profession, renowned for his reclusive, monklike image and for buildings, mostly small in scale, that are filled with spiritual overtones even if they aren't overtly religious. Among them: an art museum in Cologne, Germany, that gracefully incorporates the ruins of a Gothic church destroyed by Allied bombs during World War II, a tiny field chapel in the German countryside and a popular thermal bath house in Zumthor's home Swiss canton of Graubünden. "In paring down architecture to its barest yet most sumptuous essentials, he has reaffirmed architecture's indispensable place in a fragile world," reads the citation of the eight-member Pritzker Prize jury, which includes 1998 winner Renzo Piano."source
Read more here.
At least list where they are and then we can work together to learn about his work and see how well we can photograph his creations!
Asher