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Peter Zumthor Norman Foster received the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2009

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The prestigious newspaper "The New York Times " and "Chicago Tribune " advertised on their digital editions on Sunday afternoon April 12 the name and award-winning review for the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2009.

The awards ceremony takes place on 29 May in Buenos Aires will be the first time you perform in South America.

this year's jury consisted of: Peter Palumbo (England), Alejandro Aravena (Chile), Shigeru Ban (Japan), Rolf Fehlbaum (Switzerland), Carlos Jiménez (Costa Rica), Juhani Pallasmaa (Finland), Renzo Piano (Italy), Karen Stein and Martha Thorne (USA).

Architect "monk" states that "the power of a good project lies in ourselves and in our ability to perceive the world with feeling and reason. A good architectural design is sensory. A good architectural design is rational. " (Thinking Architecture by Peter Zumthor)

His work incorporates quality craftsmanship with a deep interest in the knowledge of modern thought. His most representative work is the building of the baths in Vaals in Switzerland (1991-96) whose main themes are: the mountains, stay inside, rocks, stone and water treated. Through crevices, joints and spaces between the stone blocks, run the water enters the light and the grass grow. Another of his most iconic buildings is the Chapel Sogn-Benedetg (Sumvitg, 1988) , where its realization refers to the traditional Swiss wall construction based on wood chips, where the traditional and contemporary touch.

Throughout his career Peter Zumthor has received numerous honors and awards, the Gold Medal Tessenow Heinrich (1989), Calberg Architecture Prize (1998), the Mies van der Rohe (1998), honorary member of Royal Institute of British Architects (2000) and Japan's Imperial Prize (2008)

here is a gallery collected by the NY Times, which you can see the 3 most important works, in my opinion (admittedly is that those are the ones studied)