After decades of avoiding gleaming skyscrapers and corporate office complexes in favour of museums and memorials while his peers conquered the world, a Swiss architect is finally getting his due in the spotlight. Peter Zumthor, 83, is the subject of a new documentary by famed German director Wim Wenders, which premieres as the architect completes the most ambitious project of his career: the long-delayed LACMA art museum in Los Angeles.
“From Inside Out: The Architecture of Peter Zumthor” is a 3D film that takes viewers on an immersive tour of the artist-architect’s limited number of structures. His most well-known projects are a hot spa building in Vals, Switzerland, a monument commemorating women burnt as witches in the Norwegian Arctic, and the amoeba-shaped LACMA building, which opened this year after 20 years of deliberation and debate.
I don’t want to be a star architect; I want to create these artistic structures,” Zumthor stated at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, where the film about him premiered. “I’m glad if the client has the patience.” The German-speaking designer is of the same generation as Swiss heavyweights Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, as well as other European architectural icons such as France’s Jean Nouvel, the Netherlands’ Rem Koolhaas, and Britain’s Norman Foster.
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