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Follow on Google News | Podcast with legendary Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is now onlineArchitecture fans will enjoy this new podcast with Peter Zumthor, Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2009, who is interviewed by independent journalist and presenter Jennifer Davies. www.jennifer-davies.com
By: Editor Peter Zumthor is one of Switzerland’ This year he was chosen as the Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, joining the esteemed ranks of Sir Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Zaha Hadid and Herzog and de Meuron. Yet for the last few decades he’s created his international projects from his small timber-clad home and atelier in the tiny village of Haldenstein in the Swiss mountains. This is where Zumthor, who’s now 66, works with a group of twenty young architects, who come from all over the world to learn from him. Zumthor explains how he started in his career and describes his uncompromising philosophy of architecture to independent journalist and presenter Jennifer Davies – also the editor and founder of design/culture magazine Inside Switzerland Magazine– on her radio show Swiss By Design, on World Radio Switzerland. The publicity-shy Zumthor also shows Jennifer a controversial new project for an island in the middle of Lake Zurich. The show, Swiss By Design featuring Peter Zumthor, is available to download free of charge as an MP3 podcast here http://worldradio.ch/ Facts and Links: Peter Zumthor’s most famous building is the Spa at Therme Vals in Switzerland http://www.therme- Peter Zumthor is the Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2009 and one of Switzerland’ Jennifer Davies is the editor of Inside Switzerland Magazine, Switzerland’ Jennifer Davies’ is the presenter of Swiss By Design, a weekly look at the art, design and architecture scene in Switzerland, broadcast on WRS, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation’ There is a podcast feed for Swiss By Design Subscribe here to the Swiss By Design feed: http://worldradio.ch/ End
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