Luigi Snozzi

Luigi Snozzi ( born July 29, 1932 in Mendrisio ) is a Swiss architect and professor emeritus of architecture from Ticino.

Life

After his studies and graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (1952-1957) and internships with the Ticino architect Peppo Brivio (Locarno ) and Rino Tami (Lugano ) Snozzi began his work as an architect in 1958 with the opening of its own office in Locarno. Modern architecture was still largely exotic in Ticino at this time. He had studied at the ETH Zurich together with his equally famous colleague Livio Vacchini and Aurelio Galfetti, their commonality was the obvious reference to the architects of the modern age. Snozzi worked from 1962 to 1971 with Livio Vacchini together. 1973-1975 Snozzi was a visiting lecturer in architectural design at the ETH Zurich. From 1975 to 1988 Snozzi entertained initially a second office in Zurich with his office partner Bruno Jenni. In 1985, ten years after his visiting professorship in Zurich Snozzi eventually became a full professor at EPFL ( Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale ) in Lausanne, where he taught until 1997. 1986-1988 Luigi Snozzi was Chairman of the Council of the City of Salzburg design. Opened in 1988, Snozzi then a second office in Lausanne.

With the exhibition " tendencies - New Architecture in Ticino " (1975 in Zurich ) Snozzi central position in the Ticino school of architecture was first introduced to the general public. From that time, his influence is increasing on the younger generation of architects in Switzerland - and is to this day hardly be overestimated. For Snozzi works of Modernist architecture is a constant point of reference, but never uncritically adapted the " avowed socialist". Snozzi takes no dedicated break with the past, but he understands history as the pulse of the new. His credo is: "Architecture must not invent, they must re- find it. "

Beyond the clichés, and fierce resistance could Snozzi, who is also involved in politics, to realize his vision of the new interpretation of the small-scale, urban life in this impressive example of the revitalization of the village of Monte Carasso ( 1977 ), which he robbed from a fragmented and its structures settlement with various interventions transformed back into a place of identification, with its architecture never pushy fashionable, but always restrained and the purpose of subduing, but always full of poetry.

Snozzi frequently executed in exposed concrete buildings are not autonomous objects, but are always looking for the relationship with the city. Only by accurately " reading of the place" developed Snozzi its architecture. Even in his aphorisms he is persistently out the important dialogue between individual buildings and city. " I love the city ," admits Snozzi and adds: "Every structural intervention involves a destruction: Destroy with Mind"

Important buildings (excerpt)

  • Casa Stratmann in San Nazzaro (TI ), 1959
  • Administration building Fabrizia in Bellinzona ( with Livio Vacchini ), 1962-1965
  • House Snider in Verscio, 1964-1966
  • Condominio Collina, 2 multi-family houses, Locarno, Via Orselina 9 and 11, 1970-1974
  • Casa Kalman, Single Family, Minusio, Via Panoramica 66, 1975-1976
  • Monte Carasso ( border community Bellinzona ), city planning and multiple dwellings, 1977
  • Casa Bianchetti, Single Family, Locarno ( Monti della Trinita ), Via G. Zoppi, 1977
  • Business building Constantini Minusio ( with Walter von Euw ), 1977-1979
  • House Barbarossa in Minusio, 1985
  • Renovation of the monastery complex Madonna del Sasso, Orselina, 1977-1987
  • Apartment house Bianchini in Brissago (TI ) ( with Bruno Barroso, Gian Franco Chiappini, Michele Arnaboldi, Maurizio Vice Domini ), 1985-1987
  • House servants in Ronco sopra Ascona, 1988-1990
  • Pfarreizentrum Lenzburg, 1983/ 1993 to 1994
  • House Cassina in Bellinzona, 1992-1995
  • Houses Giannini and Salzborn in Cureglia, 1992-1995
  • Wohnzeile " STOA " in Maastricht, 1993-2002

Memberships

1983 Luigi Snozzi became an honorary member of the Association of German Architects BDA.

In 1994 he became a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin and honorary member of the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects SIA.

2013 Snozzi was honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Munich.

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