Rino Tami

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Rino Tami , alias Arturo Tami , (born August 7, 1908 in Monteggio ; † March 15, 1994 in Lugano ) was a Swiss architect . He is considered a pioneer of modern Ticino architecture.

biography

Rino Tami was born in 1908 as the son of Giuseppe Tami in the Lisora district of the municipality of Monteggio . He attended schools in Lugano and the higher architecture school in Rome . From 1934 to 1935 he studied architecture under Otto Rudolf Salvisberg at the ETH Zurich . In 1946 he married Eugénie Mousny (1911–2011). From 1957 to 1961 he was a professor at the ETH Zurich.

His first building was the Church del Sacro Cuore in Bellinzona in 1936 . Of his later work, the Ticino canton library in Lugano from 1940, the Usego warehouse in Bironico from 1950 and the headquarters of the Ticino radio company in Lugano from 1964 should be mentioned in particular . He realized some projects together with his brother Carlo Tami (1898–1993), who had studied at the Accademia di Brera after completing an apprenticeship as a bricklayer .

From 1960 to 1983 Tami worked as an architectural consultant for the construction of the national roads in the canton of Ticino. Above all, he created the imposing portals of the A 2 motorway tunnels near Melide and on the Gotthard .

Catalog of works (selection)

  • Church del Sacro Cuore , Bellinzona (with Carlo Tami), 1936
  • Grotto ticinese for the Swiss National Exhibition , Zurich, 1939
  • Cantonal Library of Ticino , Lugano, 1940
  • Residential house, Lugano, 1942
  • Airolo headquarters of the Lucendro power plant , 1945
  • Usego warehouse, Bironico, 1950
  • Residential house, via Motta 28, Lugano (with Carlo Tami), 1952
  • Kino Corso , Lugano, 1954
  • Customs administration, Lugano, 1954
  • Storehouse of Maggia Kraftwerke OFIMA, Avegno Gordevio, 1955
  • House Casa Torre , viale Castagnola, Lugano, 1957
  • Studio of the Radio della Svizzera italiana (with Augusto Jäggli and Alberto Camenzind ), 1957–1962.
  • Erreti house , via Noale n.11 , Sorengo, 1961
  • UBS bank branch, Lugano, 1962–1966
  • Palazzo Larima , Sorengo, 1963
  • Motorway tunnel, Melide, 1963
  • Post office building, Giubiasco, 1967
  • Extension of the Cantonal Library, Lugano (with Carlo Tami), 1973
  • Church di Cristo Risorto , Lugano, 1976
  • Indoor swimming pool of the city of Lugano, Lugano, 1978
  • Portal of the Gotthard tunnel, Airolo, 1980.

estate

Rino Tami's studio estate has been kept in the Ticino architecture archive (Archivio del Moderno) of the University of Italian Switzerland in Mendrisio since 1998 .

literature

  • Tita Carloni: Rino Tami. Casagrande, Bellinzona 1992.
  • Kenneth Frampton and Riccardo Bergossi: Rino Tami. Opera completa. Academy Press, Mendrisio 2008.
  • Simona Martinoli: Rino Tami. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 11, 2014 , accessed January 22, 2020 .
  • Simona Martinoli u. a .: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, pp. 29, 36, 89, 90, 91, 96, 129, 131, 187, 291, 303, 304, 306, 307, 308, 310, 314, 321, 337, 342, 388, 390, 391, 399, 405, 406, 408, 435, 436, 437.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theo Mäusli: Eugénie Mousny. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 27, 2011 , accessed January 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Annette Gigon, Mike Guyer, et al. (Ed.): Library buildings . gta Verlag at the ETH Zurich, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-85676-381-7 , p. 132-137 .
  3. ↑ Rino Tami. Vitruvio.ch (Italian, accessed April 8, 2016).
  4. ^ Archivio del Moderno: Fondo Rino Tami, holdings 1927–1994. (PDF, Italian, accessed April 8, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Tami, Rino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tami, Arturo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Monteggio
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1994
Place of death Lugano