Paolo Zanini

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The facade of San Rocco, Lugano, 1909-10

Paolo Zanini (born April 7, 1871 in Cavergno ; † May 7, 1914 in Lugano ) was a Swiss architect .

Education and career

Zanini studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan , where he received his diploma. His buildings are partly eclectic , partly committed to a sober Art Nouveau ( stile Liberty ). From the late 1890s until the beginning of the First World War , he built a large number of villas, residential and commercial buildings throughout Ticino and carried out some planning in sacred buildings. The most important of these is the redesign of the facade of San Rocco in Piazza Maghetti in Lugano. The Villa Farinelli in Muralto is also important , a palatial building in which Mussolini stayed during the negotiations on the Locarno Treaty in 1925 .

Works (selection)

Santa Maria Assunta and San Giovanni Battista, remodeling, Cevio 1904
  • Villa Farinelli , Via Sempione 3, Muralto 1896
  • Cemetery , Via Trevano, Lugano 1897–99
  • Banquet Hall , Via Saleggio 10, Locarno 1901
  • Farinelli Chapel , Via Vallemaggia Cemetery, Locarno 1902
  • Two altars, Chiesa di S. Bernardo , Locarno 1901, 1903
  • Diocesan Seminary San Carlo , Via Soldino 9, Lugano 1903 (destroyed)
  • Villa Conti , Via Castausio 11, Lugano 1903
  • Old town house , total renovation , Via Canova 6, Lugano 1903
  • Altar, Chiesa della Beata Vergine dello Stradone , Via Madonnetta 13, Lugano 1904
  • Santa Maria Assunta and San Giovanni Battista , remodeling, Cevio 1904
  • Apartment building , Corso Pestalozzi 1, Lugano 1904
  • Apartment building , Via Pasquale Lucchini 3, Lugano 1903–05
  • Residential building with shops , Via Franchino Rusca 6, Locarno 1905
  • Gasthof Bellariva , Riva Antonio Caccia 9, Lugano 1905
  • Apartment building , Viale Cassarate 5, Lugano 1905
  • Palazzina , renovation, Via Franchino Rusca 2, Locarno 1906–07
  • Palazzo 1909 , Via Pretorio 1, Lugano, 1908
  • Villa Moretti , Via Rinaldo Simen 6, Locarno, 1908
  • Residential and commercial building , Viale di Stazione 21–25, Bellinzona 1908–10
  • Apartment building , Via Cantonale 14, Lugano 1909
  • San Rocco , Piazza Maghetti, facade renovation, Lugano 1909-10

literature

  • Emanuele Saurwein: Zanini, Paolo . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 577

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Hauser: Lugano . In: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture, 1850-1920 . tape 6 . Orell-Füssli, 1991, p. 321 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-7529 .
  2. ↑ Fabio Giacomazzi, Hanspeter Rebsamen, Daniel Ganahl: Locarno . In: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture, 1850-1920 . tape 6 . Orell-Füssli, 1991, p. 99 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-7527 .
personal data
SURNAME Zanini, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Cavergno
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1914
Place of death Lugano