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November 29, 2016 By Sarah Goldhagen

Place of Grace

The New Republic
The uncanny beauty of Peter Zumthor’s out-of-the-way buildings.Over a decade ago, I trundled my good-natured family across miles of southern Switzerland to see every building I could by Peter Zumthor, who is this year’s winner of the Pritzker Prize. Then as now, most of Zumthor’s work was off the beaten track, not only literally but metaphorically, little known to the general public although …

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