Peter Zumthor Insists He Is Down-To-Earth, Not Mystical

The Pritzker Prize-winning architect “may be white-bearded and dark-clad and his office, in a secluded spot outside the Swiss town of Chur, may take the form of a cloister around a garden … and he may like to talk of such things as the ‘mystery’ of materials. But at the suggestion he might be otherworldly, he becomes vehement.”