Archinect

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

LACMA ’s Unframed blog recently profiled the work of contractor Clark Construction to build the concrete structure for the Peter Zumthor -designed $750 million new David Geffen Galleries extension. The concrete will be left untreated to match its architect’s long-established aesthetic and elevate the "hand of the craftsman."

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ArchDaily

MARCH 10, 2024

Considering Swiss and Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor's statement that "architecture is exposed to life,” windows play a vital role in expressing that connection, becoming a significant part of the building's identity and essence.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 8, 2023

When asked about his childhood memories in Switzerland, Peter Zumthor shared that the memories of his youth contain the deepest architectural experience, which has become reservoirs of the architectural atmospheres and images that he explores in his work as an architect today.

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ArchDaily

JULY 20, 2023

Typically used as a flooring and roofing material, many architects have used quartzite stones in this region, including Peter Zumthor in his Therme Vals , Norman Foster, and Philippe Stark. Read more »

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Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2023

The ongoing makeover of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has reached an important step as Urbanize LA is reporting that construction falsework is now in place for the $750 million new David Geffen Galleries by Peter Zumthor. The rest of the falsework should be installed by the end of January.

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designboom

MARCH 7, 2023

an architectural exhibition inside a building designed by peter zumthor himself. The post peter zumthor’s werkraum haus exhibition celebrates architecture born of craftsmanship appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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designboom

MAY 31, 2022

The post lucas schnaidt series produces peter zumthor’s own home-designed chair appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. pairing expertise with modern manufacturing and design talent, lucas schnaidt 1890 pay tribute to great designers' and architects' work from the past.

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BD+C

JULY 1, 2014

After his design drew concerns about potential damage to LA''s La Brea Tar Pits, Peter Zumthor has dramatically revised his concept for the Los Angeles Museum of Art. In the new plans, a bridge-like section spans Wilshire Boulevard, Architecture Lab reports. Architects Designers Cultural Facilities Museums'

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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 1, 2023

Like his Princeton University classmate Charles Moore , and others including Peter Zumthor and Juhani Pallasmaa , Bill understood the power of architecture to shape and influence our feelings, emotions, and behavior. A phenomenological focus on the human experience was additionally central to his design philosophy.

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RMJM Architecture

APRIL 19, 2024

Reviewer: Ilya Kirichenko, Project Architect Book: Atmospheres Author: Peter Zumthor Review: “Atmospheres” delves into architecture’s intangible qualities, emphasizing emotions and experiences.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Secular Retreat, UK, by Peter Zumthor. Swiss architect Peter Zumthor , a winner of both the Pritzker Prize and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal , has developed a cult following over his long career defined by a resolutely minimalist style. Photo is by Jack Hobhouse.

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SW Oregon Architect

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Peter Zumthor said of details “. Wood detailing by Carlo Scarpa in the Aula Mario Baratto Room within the Ca’Foscari, University of Venice (photo by Cafoscaritour, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) Many other famous architects have likewise obsessed over details. when they are successful, [they] are not mere decoration.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 29, 2016

You might be surprised to learn that I am not on a first name basis with Peter Zumthor. Interestingly enough, when I find some downtime and I want to randomly search the internet, I start with Peter Zumthor. I don’t want to be slow,” Zumthor explains of his uncompromising method, taking a sip of his cappuccino.

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aasarchitecture

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In addition to imagery, descriptions such as “Zumthor architecture,” “dramatic lighting,” and “cinematic,” were added to dimensional instructions for creative outputs. With access to a vast archive of imagery, AI algorithms helped to discern the nuances of form, texture, and proportion that define various musical instruments.

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Architizer

JUNE 3, 2022

Allmannajuvet by Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partner (2016). The project by Peter Zumthor consists of a carpark, walkways and three buildings along the route walked by the miners between 1881 and 1899. Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum ©Foto Fredrik Fløgstad / Statens vegvesen. Inside the museum ©Foto Fredrik Fløgstad /Statens vegvesen.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Drawing inspiration from exceptional houses designed by masters such as Peter Zumthor, Studio Mumbai, Herzog & de Meuron, and Vincent van Duysen, the Granary House aimed to achieve the fundamental characteristics that define the quality of these reference projects: the poetry and coherence of the design on all fronts.

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e-architect

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In addition to imagery, descriptions such as “Zumthor architecture,” “dramatic lighting,” and “cinematic,” were added to dimensional instructions for creative outputs. With access to a vast archive of imagery, AI algorithms helped to discern the nuances of form, texture, and proportion that define various musical instruments.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Peter Zumthor, a Master of Minimalist Architecture, once said, architecture is filled with warmth and perception. In Zumthor’s book “Atmospheres: Architectural Environments, Surrounding Objects,” he emphasizes that “atmosphere” is a responsive interaction between the user and the space.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Guest cottages also feature offset gabled roofs, and are clad in reclaimed oak "With a more modern take on the vernacular building typologies of farmhouse and barn, inspired by modern European architects such as Peter Zumthor, the buildings were designed to frame the surrounding mountains, nestled harmoniously into the site," said the studio.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 27, 2019

For an architect, this could be visiting Therme Vals in Switzerland by Peter Zumthor, or if this was prior to 1969, maybe it would be smoking cigars with Mies van der Rohe. Today we are talking about Architectural Bucket lists. Everyone knows what a bucket list is – things you want to do or achieve in your life.

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2022

Previous speakers include Swiss architect Peter Zumthor , Chinese architect Wang Shu and Indian architect Balkrishna V. London's Royal Academy of Arts' Annual Architecture Lecture invites major figures in the profession to discuss their work and philosophies.

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30X40 Design Workshop

APRIL 14, 2022

28:38 Peter Zumthor + beards The Life of an Architect blog was created in 2010, and for ten years Bob’s posts have been making the practice of architecture accessible + interesting to a worldwide, diverse audience. 18:25 The challenge of going to school later in life 19:38 What skills will prepare me for architecture school?

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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 2, 2022

Benedict Chapel, Sumvitg, Graubünden, Switzerland, designed by Peter Zumthor (photo by p2cl, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) Like 2020 before it, 2021 was hardly a banner year. I indulged in some “me” time, which included leisurely reading the book Thinking Architecture by the Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.

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BD+C

JULY 1, 2014

After his design drew concerns about potential damage to LA''s La Brea Tar Pits, Peter Zumthor has dramatically revised his concept for the Los Angeles Museum of Art. In the new plans, a bridge-like section spans Wilshire Boulevard, Architecture Lab reports. read more.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The father-daughter team behind Chirp Birdhouses craft intricately-made avian homages to the 20th century’s great architectural minds, from Louis Kahn to Peter Zumthor. Like most of Hadid’s work, the shapes and forms of the Zaha birdhouse convey a sense of motion, which fits nicely with the constant come and go of open-nester birds.

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Bustler

MAY 10, 2022

In 2016, The Daylight Award was established as an international award that has rewarded Steven Holl (USA) (2016), Marilyne Andersen (CH) (2016), Hiroshi Sambuichi (JP) (2018), Greg Ward (USA) (2018), Juha Leiviskä (FI) (2020), Russell Foster (UK) (2020) and Henry Plummer (US) (2020).

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Examples of this include a dwelling in Utah by Klima Architecture , architect Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals spa (above) and a monolithic Parisian library by Agence Pascale Guédot. Quartzite is a popular material for kitchen countertops as it is resistant to staining, but is most commonly used as a decorative cladding or flooring.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

AUGUST 8, 2022

Think Kahn, Wang Shu, Zumthor, etc.) I have a hard time saying yes to those questions, since modern and contemporary architecture is full of examples of buildings that depart from Classicism but take a similar approach in terms of a smaller scale and load-bearing construction and materials.

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Architecture Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Swiss architect Peter Zumthor designed the chapel, constructed between 2005 and 2007. When Peter Zumthor was developing the Kolumba Diocesan art museum in Cologne, the Scheidtweiler family met him. The chapel was conceived and erected by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor between 2005 and 2007. Source: afisha.bigmir.net.

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Community Architect

JULY 7, 2023

He conducted some of the first phenomenological studies of architecture during his doctoral studies at Princeton University in the 1950s under the Zumthor thermal bath in Vals, Switzerland influence of Jean Labatut whose pedagogy aimed to define [architectural] experience as a direct bodily communion with architecture.

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Architizer

JULY 20, 2022

Therme Vals by Peter Zumthor, Vals, Switzerland | Photograph by Paul Clemence. You are trying to figure out the story of that person… So I tend to prefer pictures without people, because then the relationship that is established with the image is your own personal relationship with that building.”.

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e-architect

MARCH 7, 2023

Arata Isozaki Receives the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize Pritzker Prize Pritzker Prize Architects : main page with current winner information Location: Chicago, USA Pritzker Architecture Prize – Past Winners Pritzker Prize 2015 – Frei Otto selected as the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize Ruta del Peregrino, Jalisco , Mexico – Alejandro (..)

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Deezen

JULY 9, 2023

The work of various scholars, including Gaston Bachelard, Peter Zumthor, Jonathan Hill, Phillip Rawson, Juhani Pallasmaa and David Leatherbarrow is referenced to highlight the correlation between tangible spaces and memory.

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e-architect

MARCH 6, 2023

Pritzker Prize Architect winners Chronological: Balkrishna Doshi 2018 – see RIBA 2022 Gold Medal for Architecture RCR Arquitectes 2017 Alejandro Aravena 2016 Frei Otto 2015 Shigeru Ban 2014 Toyo Ito 2013 Wang Shu 2012 Eduardo Elísio Machado Souto de Moura 2011 SANAA 2010 Peter Zumthor 2009 Jean Nouvel 2008 Richard Rogers 2007 Paulo Mendes da (..)

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 6, 2017

Thinking Architecture by Peter Zumthor – Thinking architecture is a collection of essays and lectures that Zumthor gave, it feels like an intimate conversation. He wanted to create architecture that was as truthful to its use as a machine is to its use. A classic that should be on every architect’s shelf.

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Bustler

JUNE 18, 2023

Peter Zumthor Purpose: This competition aims to understand the effect of the built environment on human mind. Peter Zumthor Participation: This competition is open to all. Every space has some effect on our mind depending on the quality of that space. I think space, architectural space, is my thing. My passion is creating space.

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designboom

JUNE 4, 2023

watch the highlights of the design talks between designboom and time & style. The post designboom interviews: kengo kuma, CKR, drill design and aoi huber kono for time & style at milan design week appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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