In 1998, Zumthor received the Carlsberg Architecture Prize for his designs of the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Bregenz, Austria and the Thermal Baths at Vals, Switzerland (see below).

Zumthor has taught at Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, the Technical University of Munich, the Academy of Architecture Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera Italiana, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

In 1994, he was elected to the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. In 1996, he was made an honorary member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA). He won the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 1999.

Zumthor's work is largely unpublished in part because of his philosophical belief that architecture must be experienced first hand. His published written work is mostly narrative and phenomenological.

Currently, Zumthor works out of his small studio which he founded in 1979, in the town of Haldenstein, Switzerland.

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Kolumba Museum, 1997-2000

Sogn Benedetg Chapel, 1985-1988

Shelters for Roman Archaeological Site, 1985-1986

kunsthaus bregenz, 1994-1997

Bruder Klaus Chapel, 2005-2006

therme vals, 1993-1996