This building has been my favorite representation of the beauty of natural indigenous materials used in architecture since the first image that I saw of this quartzite encased thermal pool. The architect, Peter Zumthor has just been awarded the Pritzker prize. He certainly belongs in the company of previous winner James Sterling, who used natural indigenous limestone so beautifully in the Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. It is no wonder that I have worked with materials all my life, as material is what I respond to first when I see a building - well before I notice form.
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