This architect of the Chapel of St. Benedict included an isosceles triangular door at his Brother Klaus Field Chapel.
One chapel designed by this man was made by arranging 112 pine logs into a teepee shape, covering them with concrete, and then burning them away. Another tower-like chapel with a teardrop-shape plan by this man includes dark outer shingles that contrast with a bright, bare timber interior. This architect of the Chapel of St. Benedict included an isosceles triangular door at his Brother Klaus Field Chapel. This man designed the partially-completed and since-demolished [*] "Topography of Terror" on the site of the Gestapo headquarters. This man was unable create rooms of sufficient size by hollowing out big rocks, so he opted to use stacked slabs of thin-cut gneiss to construct a hotel bath house. For 10 points, name this Swiss architect, the 2009 Pritzker laureate and designer of the Theme Vals complex.
One chapel designed by this man was made by arranging 112 pine logs into a teepee shape, covering them with concrete, and then burning them away.
Peter Zumthor