Archinect - News 2024-05-06T22:59:07-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/100587804/peter-zumthor-selects-paraguayan-architect-gloria-cabral-as-rolex-arts-initiative-prot-g-e Peter Zumthor selects Paraguayan architect Gloria Cabral as Rolex Arts Initiative protégée Justine Testado 2014-05-28T20:09:00-04:00 >2019-05-07T12:44:06-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/o1/o1a7grpv762do2yd.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Peter Zumthor has chosen Paraguayan architect Gloria Cabral as Architecture prot&eacute;g&eacute;e for the 2014-2015 Rolex Arts Initiative. In each of the program's seven artistic fields, mentors selected three to four finalists, who were originally chosen from a total of 154 nominated applicants. Each mentor met and interviewed their finalists and selected the person he or she felt would gain the most from the one-year mentorship.</p> <p>Zumthor, the 2009 Pritzker Prize laureate who was <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/85290938/peter-zumthor-named-as-architecture-mentor-for-rolex-arts-initiative-2014-2015" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">appointed as this year's Architecture mentor</a>, will collaborate with Cabral for one year. She was selected out of four other Architecture finalists announced this past April.</p> <p><img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/u6/u6k6ecgndbxea29y.jpg"></p>