Editing Peter Zumthor (section)

==Recognition==

In 1994, he was elected to the [[Academy of Arts, Berlin]].  In 1996, he was made an honorary member of the [[Bund Deutscher Architekten]] (BDA). In 1998, Zumthor received the [[Carlsberg Architectural Prize]] for his designs of the [[Kunsthaus Bregenz]] in Bregenz, Austria and the Thermal Baths at Vals, Switzerland (see below). He won the [[Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture]] in 1999. Recently, he was awarded [[Praemium Imperiale]] in (2008) and the [[Pritzker Architecture Prize]] (2009). In 2012, he was awarded the RIBA [[Royal Gold Medal]].<ref>Press Release (27 September 2012), [http://www.architecture.com/NewsAndPress/News/AwardsNews/News/2012/PeterZumthorawarded2013RoyalGoldMedalforarchitecture.aspx Peter Zumthor awarded 2013 Royal Gold Medal for architecture] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406234242/http://www.architecture.com//NewsAndPress/News/AwardsNews/News/2012/PeterZumthorawarded2013RoyalGoldMedalforarchitecture.aspx |date=6 April 2013 }} ''The Royal Institute of British Architects''.</ref> On the occasion of his 80th birthday in 2023, the F.A.Z. called Zumthor "the great magician of minimalism."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunst-und-architektur/der-architekt-peter-zumthor-wird-80-18847956.html|title=Drum prüfe sich zunächst der Bauherr|last=Alexander|first=Matthias | publisher = [[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]] |newspaper=Faz.net | date =  26 April 2023 | access-date=2023-05-03}}</ref>