Peter Zumthor: a life in architecture - in pictures
A look at the architecture of Peter Zumthor, who has won the prestigious gold medal at the Royal Institute of British Architects
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Peter Zumthor. The Swiss-born architect has built 20 projects which have created ripples around the world
Photograph: Gerry Ebner
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Peter Zumthor’s 1989 chapel of St Benedict in Sumvitg, Switzerland
Photograph: Arno Balzarini/Keystone/Corbis
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The thermal baths at Vals, Switzerland, which made Zumthor's name in 1996
Photograph: Christof Sonderegger/Switzerland Tourism
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Therme Vals, Switzerland. The layers of locally quarried quartzite conceal thick concrete walls
Photograph: Hélène Binet
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Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, Wachendorf, Germany. Inside is a wigwam made of 112 tree trunks
Photograph: Hélène Binet
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Kolumba Art Museum, Cologne, Germany. Zumthor's design rises from the ruins of a late-Gothic church
Photograph: Hélène Binet
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Inside the art Museum of the Cologne Archdiocese in Cologne, Germany. "Articulated with perforations, the brick work allows diffused light to fill specific spaces of the museum," said Arch Daily
Photograph: AP
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The twin house Raeth in Haldenstein, Switzerland, built 1981-3
Photograph: Arno Balzarini/EPA
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The Kunsthaus Museum in Bregenz, Austria, which stands on Lake Constance. In Zumthor's words: 'From the outside, the building looks like a lamp. It absorbs the changing light of the sky, the haze of the lake, it reflects light and colour and gives an intimation of its inner life according to the angle of vision, the daylight and the weather.'
Photograph: Ennio Leanza/AP
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Inside the Kunsthaus Bregenz. The walls and floor are polished concrete; the windows and ceiling frosted glass
Photograph: Hélène Binet
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Projection of Zumthor's design for the Serpentine Gallery's 2011 summer pavilion, a walled garden
Photograph: Peter Zumthor
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Visitors enjoy the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in the summer of 2011
Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian
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Zumthor's Spittelhof houseing estate in Biel-Benken, near Basel. Designed to maximise the light to the lounges and bedrooms, the complex includes five ground-floor flats for the elderly
Photograph: LeonL
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Peter Zumthor's model of his Secular Retreat for Living Architecture, a retreat from the stresses and strains of life which will be built in Devon in 2014
Photograph: PR
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Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgoise's witchcraft memorial in Vardø, Norway, within the Arctic Circle. It commemorates the 91 people burned at the stake in the 17th-century Vardø witchcraft trials
Photograph: PR
