Inside Peter Zumthor’s 900-page, 6kg monograph

Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has a huge international reputation, but his body of work remains small. “As an architect, I am an author,” he writes in his long-awaited monograph. Precision and artistry are his watchwords. “I design my buildings from the inside out and from the outside in, and then once again from the inside out until everything is right,” Zumthor explains in the introduction.  The publication, which is also available in English, details around 30 years of his career. It includes 43 projects – including the well-known ones and some that never left the drawing board – as seen through photographs, plans, sketches and watercolours. The accompanying texts were written by the Pritzer-prize winning architect. Editor Thomas Durisch selected the projects and the materials presented, in collaboration with Zumthor. The two men have known each other for more than 20 years, since Durisch, now an architect with his own practice, went to work with Zumthor on the … Show more
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