Zumthor in Mexico: Swiss Architects in Mexico
Arquine, July 2019

Paperback | 5-1/2 x 8 inches | 112 pages | 20 illustrations | Spanish/English | ISBN: 978-6079489311 | $20.00

Publisher Description:
In 2017, as part of the MEXTRÓPOLI Festival, Pritzker Prize?winning architect Peter Zumthor (born 1943) was invited to Mexico City to participate in a series of public discussions about architecture and the city. Zumthor in Mexico, the first publication in Arquine?s new Swiss Architects in Mexico series, collects the architect?s Mexico City conversations in a handsome volume, featuring edited transcriptions of Zumthor?s talks with journalist Nicolás Alvarado, artist Pedro Reyes and architects Tatiana Bilbao, Gloria Cabral and Rozana Montiel, among others.
In these lively interviews, Zumthor explains his personal approach to architecture as it applies to a wide range of subjects, such as: where design ideas come from, how ideas move from conceptualization to materialization, the importance of the landscape and the natural environment to design and his sense of the responsibility of the architect in the present.dDAB Commentary:
Just about any book with Peter Zumthor's name on the cover is a desirable title. Peter Zumthor Works and Thinking Architecture, both published in the late 1990s, were expensive, hard-to-find books whose values have respectively diminished slightly (Works goes for $450 and up) and dramatically (a first edition of Thinking can be had for just $40 since ...