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==Career== [[File:Kolumba.jpg|thumb|Kolumba Museum, [[Cologne]]]] Zumthor founded his own firm in 1979. His practice grew quickly and he accepted more international projects. Zumthor has taught at [[University of Southern California]] Institute of Architecture and SCI-ARC in Los Angeles (1988), the [[Technical University of Munich]] (1989), [[Tulane University]] (1992), and the [[Harvard Graduate School of Design]] (1999). Since 1996, he has been a professor at the [[Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio]].<ref name=daylight2011>The VELUX Foundations (2010), [https://thedaylightaward.com/peter-zumthor/ "Peter Zumthor: The Daylight Award by VELUX Stiftung 2010"], ''The Daylight Award''.</ref> His best known projects are the [[Kunsthaus Bregenz]] (1997), a shimmering glass and concrete cube that overlooks [[Lake Constance]] (Bodensee) in Austria; the cave-like thermal baths in [[Vals, Switzerland]] (1999); the Swiss Pavilion for [[Expo 2000]] in Hannover, an all-timber structure intended to be recycled after the event; the [[Kolumba|Kolumba Diocesan Museum]] (2007), in Cologne; and the Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, on a farm near Wachendorf. In 1993, Zumthor won the competition for a museum and documentation center on the horrors of Nazism to be built on the site of Gestapo headquarters in Berlin. Zumthor's submission called for an extended three-story building with a framework consisting of concrete rods. The project, called the [[Topography of Terror]], was partly built and then abandoned when the government decided not to go ahead for financial reasons. The unfinished building was demolished in 2004.<ref name=NYT01>[[Robin Pogrebin|Pogrebin, Robin]], (12 April 2009), [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/arts/design/13pritzker.html "Pritzker Prize Goes to Peter Zumthor"], ''The New York Times''.</ref> In 1999, Zumthor was selected as the only foreign architect to participate in Norway's National Tourist Routes Project, with two projects, the Memorial in Memory of the Victims of the Witch Trials in Varanger, a collaboration with [[Louise Bourgeois]] (completed in 2010), and a rest area/museum on the site of an abandoned zinc mine.<ref>Cathy Lang Ho (5 February 2010), [http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/33833/peter-zumthor-speaks/ Peter Zumthor Speaks] ''ARTINFO''.</ref> For the [[Dia Art Foundation]] in [[Beacon, New York]], Zumthor designed a gallery that was to house the ''360Β° I Ching'' sculpture by [[Walter de Maria]]; though the project was never completed. Zumthor is the only foreign architect to participate, with two projects,{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} the [[Steilneset Memorial|Memorial in Memory of the Victims of the Witch Trials in Varanger]], a collaboration with [[Louise Bourgeois]] (2011),<ref name="Wallp01">Bell, Jonathan, [http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/steilneset-by-peter-zumthor-and-louise-bourgeois "Dark arts: Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois' brooding Steilneset memorial"], 4 July 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2017.</ref> and a rest area/museum on the site of the abandoned Allmannajuvet zinc mines, in operation from 1882 to 1898, in Norway (2016).<ref name="DEZ01">Frearson, Amy, [https://www.dezeen.com/2016/06/10/peter-zumthor-architecture-wooden-buildings-on-stilts-tourist-trail-norway-allamannajuvet-mine/ "Peter Zumthor creates buildings on stilts for tourist trail at a Norwegian mine"], ''dezeen.com'', 10 June 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2017.</ref> In November 2009, it was revealed that Zumthor is working on a major redesign for the campus of the [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]].<ref name="AN01">{{Citation | last=Lifson | first=Edward | title=A Bolt of Zumthor | newspaper=[[The Architect's Newspaper]] | date=24 November 2009 | url=https://archpaper.com/2009/11/a-bolt-of-zumthor/ }}</ref> Recently, he turned down an opportunity to consider a new library for [[Magdalen College]], Oxford. He was selected to design the [[Serpentine Gallery]]'s annual summer pavilion with designer Piet Oudolf in 2011.<ref>Jonathan Glancey (4 April 2011), [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/apr/04/peter-zumthor-serpentine-gallery-pavilion Peter Zumthor unveils secret garden for Serpentine pavilion] ''The Guardian''.</ref> In 2023, the Werkraum Haus β designed 10 years earlier by Zumthor β showed 40 of his architectural models, including some that have never been shown to the public before.<ref name="domus2023">{{Citation | last=Brandoli | first=Lucia | title=Peter Zumthor's major exhibition of maquettes in Austria | newspaper= [[Domus (magazine) |Domus]] | date= 7 March 2023 | url= https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/gallery/2023/03/07/the-great-exhibition-of-peter-zumthors-maquettes-for-the-10th-anniversary-of-the-werkraum-haus.html}}</ref> Currently, Zumthor works out of his small studio with around 30 employees, in [[Haldenstein]], near the city of [[Chur]], in [[Switzerland]].<ref>Michael Kimmelman (11 March 2011), [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/magazine/mag-13zumthor-t.html?ref=michaelkimmelman The Ascension of Peter Zumthor] ''New York Times''.</ref>
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