![]() ![]() He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Southern California Institute of Architecture and SCI-ARC in Los Angeles in 1988 at the Technische Universität, Munich in 1989 and at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University in 1999. ![]() Since 1996, he has been a professor at the Academy of Architecture, Universitá della Svizzera Italiana, Mendrisio. ![]() They have three children, all adults, Anna Katharina, Peter Conradin, and Jon Paulin, and two grandchildren. Zumthor is married to Annalisa Zumthor-Cuorad. He established his own practice in 1979 in Haldenstein, Switzerland where he still works with a small staff of fifteen. In 1967, he was employed by the Canton of Graubünden (Switzerland) in the Department for the Preservation of Monuments working as a building and planning consultant and architectural analyst of historical villages, in addition to realizing some restorations. From 1963-67, he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Vorkurs and Fachklasse with further studies in design at Pratt Institute in New York. He trained as a cabinet maker from 1958 to 1962. Peter Zumthor was born on April 26, 1943, the son of a cabinet maker, Oscar Zumthor, in Basel, Switzerland. ![]()
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