Peppo Brivio

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Giuseppe (Peppo) Brivio (born July 7, 1923 in Lugano ; † February 16, 2016 there ) was a Swiss architect and professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Geneva .

Life

Brivio was born the son of Italo Brivio, a boatman from Pianello del Lario . After attending the Lyceum and the Polytechnic in Milan , he studied at the ETH Zurich , where he obtained an architecture diploma from William Dunkel in 1947 . Between 1969 and 1990 he was Professor of Architecture in Geneva. He then worked with the architects Franco Ponti (1949–1950), René Pedrazzini (1949–1956), Rino Tami (1953–1956) and Vittorio Gregotti (1963–1964), developing a strict modern “poetry”.

Major works

  • With Franco Ponti in Bellinzona , he realized the Isola Bella (1949–1950) and Campagna (1950–1953) houses;
  • Apartment houses Albairone (1956–1957) and Cate (1957–1958) in Massagno ;
  • Detached house in Savosa (1958)
  • Apartment house Rosolaccio in Chiasso (1959–1960)
  • Detached house “Corinna” in Morbio Inferiore (1962)
  • House Casa dei Pini in Vacallo (1962)
  • Petrol station on the cantonal road between Bondo and Castasegna (1962/63)
  • Detached house in Caprino (1963)
  • Facility for the 13th Milan Triennale (1964)
  • "Bank building Weisskredit" in Chiasso (1965–1967)
  • Single-family house Valleggione in Bironico (1965–1969)

literature

  • Marino Cattaneo: Peppo Brivio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 9, 2016 , accessed December 14, 2019 .
  • Nicola Navone: Peppo Brivio, maestro del Moderno nel Cantone Ticino. Archivio del Moderno, Mendrisio 2016.
  • Renato Pedio: Una proposta neoplastica. In L'architettura , 1961, No. 64, pp. 678-690 and 1965, No. 120, pp. 376-386.
  • Angela Riverso Ortelli: I viaggi di Peppo Brivio in Olanda 1962-1965. In Fondazione Archivi Architetti Ticinesi. Espazium, Zurich 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peppo Brivio, Maestro del Moderno (Italian) on ilgiornaledellarchitettura.com/web.
  2. ↑ Casa Albairone (Italian) on espazium.ch
  3. ↑ 52 best buildings - 10 - Stazioni di rifornimento, Castasegna , accessed on May 21, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Brivio, Peppo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brivio, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugano
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2016
Place of death Lugano