for example, why he insisted on using locally quarried stone. Therme Vals's scenic design elements, and Zumthor's contributions to this book, reflect the architect's commitment to the essential and his disdain for needless architectural flourishes. Seeing Zumthor Seeing Zumthor represents a unique collaboration between Zumthor and Swiss photographer Hans Danuser, containing Danuser's images of buildings created by Zumthor. More than twenty years ago, in a milestone event of twentieth-century architectural photography, Danuser photographed, at Zumthor's invitation, two buildings: the protective structure built for archaeological excavations in Chur and St Benedict's Chapel in Sumvitg. When first shown in exhibition, those photos ignited a lively debate that has been revived with a recent exhibition of Danuser's photographs of Zumthor's most famous work, the spa at Therme Vals. Seeing Zumthor collects these three important series of Danuser's pictures and includes essays by leading art historians exploring the relationship between the two seemingly different disciplines or architecture and photography. Dear to Me In summer 2017, Peter Zumthor curated the exhibition Dear to Me at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, marking the twentieth anniversary of one of his most famous designs. Part of the program were conversations with philosophers, curators, historians, composers, writers, photographers, collectors, and craftsmen that Zumthor had invited to contribute to the exhibition. His dialogues with them offer insights into the thoughts and practice of fascinating personalities. Together with his counterparts, he explores artistic preferences and practices, reasonings, as well as practical knowledge from artisanal experience. In Dear to Me, Zumthor's equally serious and serene conversations with Anita Albus, Aleida Assmann, Marcel Beyer, Hélène Binet, Hannes Böhringer, Renate Breuss, Claudia Comte, Bice Curiger, Esther Kinsky, Ralf Konersmann, Walter Lietha, Olga Neuwirth, Rebecca Saunders, Karl Schlögel, Martin Seel, Rudolf Walli, and Wim Wenders are collected in seventeen booklets held together in an exquisitely manufactured box. Personal Zumthor and his wife, Annalisa Zumthor-Cuorad, have three children. Principal works 1983 Elementary school Churwalden, Churwalden, Graubünden, Switzerland. 1983 House Räth, Haldenstein, Graubünden, Switzerland. 1986 Shelters for Roman archaeological site, Chur, Graubünden, Switzerland. 1986 Atelier Zumthor, Haldenstein, Graubünden, Switzerland. 1989 Saint Benedict Chapel, Sumvitg, Graubünden, Switzerland. 1990 Art Museum Chur, Graubünden, Switzerland. 1993 Residential home for the elderly, Masans, Chur, Graubünden, Switzerland. 1994 Gugalun House, Versam, Graubünden, Switzerland. 1996 Spittelhof housing, Biel-Benken, Basel, Switzerland. 1996 Therme Vals, Vals, Graubünden, Switzerland. 1997 Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria. 1997 Topography of Terror, International Exhibition and Documentation Centre, Berlin, Germany, partly built,