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Peter Zumthor

Shelter for Roman Ruins . Chur

Frame of Form

Shelter for Roman Ruins is one of Peter Zumthor’s early works, built in 1985–1986 in the Welschdörfli quarter of Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland. It shelters the remains of the Roman settlement Curia Raetorum and even older traces that go back to the Neolithic period. The structure is listed as a cultural site of national importance and received an award for good buildings in Graubünden in 1987. Continue reading Peter Zumthor

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Walter Gropius

His New World Home

Historic New England

Ise Gropius narrates this short documentary, made in 1970 by Robert S. Barcelow, that describes her husband Walter Gropius’s vision for their family home in Lincoln, Massachusetts. A groundbreaking work of Modern architecture when it was completed in 1938, Gropius House now attracts thousands of visitors each year as a house museum owned by Historic New England. Continue reading Walter Gropius