Livio Vacchini

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Palestra Caserma Losone
Main Post Office Locarno

Livio Vacchini (born February 27, 1933 in Locarno ; † April 2, 2007 in Basel ) was a Swiss architect from the Ticino School and professor emeritus of architecture.

Life

Livio Vacchini was the son of Mario Vittorio Giuseppe Ressiga-Vachini and Rosa Maria Gurgo; from 1953 to 1958 he studied with Rino Tami at the ETH Zurich . After a stay in Stockholm and Paris from 1959 to 1961 he founded his own architecture studio in Locarno; he worked u. a. closely with Luigi Snozzi and Aurelio Galfetti . His work was shaped by Greek antiquity and Italian rationalism , as well as by the architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Arne Jacobsen , Louis I. Kahn and Rudolf Schwarz . He was visiting professor at the ETH Zurich (1976) and at the Polytechnic University of Milan (1982). From 1995 to 2001 he ran another office in Basel with Silvia Gmür .

Vacchini was a member of the so-called Tendenza and became internationally known in 1975 with the Zurich exhibition “Architecture of Rebellion”. Together with his colleagues Mario Botta , Aurelio Galfetti , Luigi Snozzi and other Ticino architects, he campaigned against the urban sprawl in the Swiss canton of Ticino .

Vacchini's most important works include the schools in Locarno , Losone (together with Aurelio Galfetti) and Montagnola as well as the postal center in Locarno, the multi-purpose hall in Losone and the redesign of the “Piazza del Sole” in Bellinzona . He gained international attention not only with the construction of the new architecture school in Nancy, France (1993–1995).

His last larger buildings were more controversial among experts because of formalism. These included the main post office building in Locarno from 1996, the gymnasium of the barracks in Losone from 1997 and the “La Ferriera” commercial building in the “Quartiere Nuovo” of Locarno, built in 2003 and encased in steel grating.

Important buildings

  • Apartment block in Locarno-Saleggi, Locarno 1965–1966
  • House Snider, Verscio 1965–1966
  • Ascona Middle School , 1972–1975
  • Scuole elementari comunali, Locarno 1972–1979
  • Centro Macconi department store, Lugano 1975–1977, 2000
  • Primary school «Collina d'Oro», Montagnola 1982
  • Lido in Ascona (Lido), Ascona 1982–1987
  • Fumagalli House, Ascona 1983–1985
  • Architect's office (Studio Vacchini), Locarno 1984–1985
  • Rezzonico House, Vogorno 1985–1987
  • House Vacchini, Tenero-Contra 1992
  • Aurora House, Lugano 1995
  • Nancy School of Architecture, 1995–1996
  • Main Post Office, Locarno 1996
  • Hospital Canton Basel (with Silvia Gmür), Basel 1998
  • Landesbank of the Canton of Ticino, Brissago 1998
  • Multipurpose hall (Palestra Caserma), Losone 1995–1997
  • Ward block D, Cantonal Hospital Graubünden, (with Silvia Gmür), Chur, 1993–2000
  • Kantonsspital Basel Klinikum 1 West (with Silvia Gmür), Basel 2002
  • La Ferriera, Locarno 2000-2003
  • Centro cantonale di termovalorizzazione dei rifiuti (waste incineration plant), Giubiasco , 2003–2009

honors and awards

  • 1992 Exhibition at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel
  • 1997 Concrete architecture prize for the Losone multipurpose hall
  • 1999 nomination for the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture for the multi-purpose hall in Losone
  • 2001 The documentary “Livio Vacchini. La sala polivalente di Losone ”by Adriano Kestenholz was honored with the“ Grand Prix de la Qualité de l'image ”at the Festival international du film d'art et pédagogique in Paris
  • 2001 Award for good buildings in Graubünden for bed house D of the Rhaetian Cantonal and Regional Hospital, Chur (together with Silvia Gmür)
  • 2005 European steel construction award for the “La Ferriera” commercial building in Locarno

literature

  • Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus, Werner Oechslin, Jacques Lucan, Thomas Weisskopf: Livio Vacchini - Projects 1989–1991. , Architekturmuseum Basel 1992, ISBN 3-905065-16-9 .
  • Sylvain Malfroy: Livio Vacchini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 21, 2014 , accessed January 18, 2020 .
  • Till Lensing, ed. from the Lecturer in Building Technology and Construction / BUK ETH Zurich: Livio Vacchini. Typology - tectonics - transformation. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-906027-90-6 .
  • Roberto Masiero: Livio Vacchini - Works and Projects. Gustavo Gili 1999, ISBN 84-252-1784-9 (span.)
  • Ulrike Stark: Architects. Livio Vacchini. Fraunhofer Irb Stuttgart 1998 2nd edition, ISBN 3-8167-3346-8

Web links

Commons : Livio Vacchini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fabrizio Brentini: The work of Livio Vacchini: Monograph with depth , literature & art No. 67, 11/2015
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae of Silvia Gmür , on gmuerarch.ch
  3. ^ Roman Hollenstein: Rigoroser Rationalismus , On the 70th birthday of the Ticino architect Livio Vacchini, NZZ Zurich, February 27, 2003
  4. ^ Roman Hollenstein: Formal Clarity , On the death of the architect Livio Vacchini, NZZ Zurich, April 4, 2007
  5. ↑ May 9-26 , 1992 , on sam-basel.org
personal data
SURNAME Vacchini, Livio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Locarno
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 2007
Place of death Basel