A Prize to the Autonomy of Architecture

The 2009 Pritzker Prize to Peter Zumthor means a recognition of the validity of autonomous architecture:

"I believe that architecture today needs to reflect on the tasks and possibilities which are inherently its own. Architecture is not a vehicle or a symbol for things that do not belong to its essence"

Peter Zumthor.Thinking Architecture, 1998

The link takes to a good article at Los Angeles Times