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Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has received The Pritzker Prize of architecture for 2009. Zumthor has continually crafted timeless buildings, rich in phenomenology and saturated in sensory experience; the inhabitant should feel the architecture around them and be changed by its presence.
" ...What do we mean when we speak of architectural quality? It is a question I have little difficulty in answering. Quality in architecture does not - not to me anyway - mean inclusion in architectural guides or histories of architecture or getting my work into this or that publication. Quality architecture to me is when a building manages to move me."
(Peter Zumthor in his book Atmospheres, p 10)
Oh God, don't you just love him?
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