Pritzker-prize winning architect Peter Zumthor was born in Basel in 1943 and raised in Oberwil, Baselland. He is married to Annalisa Zumthor-Cuorad. He has been trained as cabinetmaker from 1958-62 at the shop of his father Oscar Zumthor, and as designer and architect at the Kunstgewerbeschule Basel, as well as at the Pratt Institute, New York. Since 1967, he began working as a building and planning consultant for historical villages with the Department for the Preservation of Monuments, Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. In 1978, Zumthor established his own architectural practice in Haldenstein, Switzerland. Apart from being a celebrated practicing architect, he is also a visiting professor at Southern California Institute of Architecture, SCI-ARC (Los Angeles), at the Technische Universität Munich, and at the Graduate School of Design, GSD, Harvard University (Boston). From 1996-2008, he was a professor at the Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio.