Luigi Snozzi (29 July 1932 – 29 December 2020) was a Swiss

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, born in

Mendrisio Mendrisio (; ) is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Mendrisio (district), Mendrisio in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Mendrisio is the seat of the Accademia di Architettura di Mendris ...

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. He worked in

Locarno Locarno (; ; Ticinese dialect, Ticinese: ; formerly in ) is a southern Switzerland, Swiss List of towns in Switzerland, town and Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district Locarno (district), Locarno (of which it is the capita ...

and

Lugano Lugano ( , , ; ) is a city and municipality within the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. It is the largest city in both Ticino and the Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland. Lugano has a population () of , and an u ...

Life

He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in

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. From 1962 to 1971, Snozzi worked in association with architect

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. From 1982 to 1984, he was a Visiting Professor and in 1985 he was appointed Professor of Architecture at

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (, EPFL) is a public university, public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland, founded in 1969 with the mission to "train talented engineers in Switzerland". Like its sister institution E ...

. Snozzi was a professor of the

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, at the Faculty of Architecture of

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Snozzi died in Minusio on 29 December 2020, at the age of 88, after contracting

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during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland.Addio a Luigi Snozzi

Literature

* Samuel Penn (ed.): Accounts. Pelinu Books,

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2019 with contributions by Raphael Zuber, Beat Consoni, Andrea Deplazes, Peter Märkli, Marcel Meili, Álvaro Siza, Luigi Snozzi, Laurent Stalder, ISBN 978-973-0-29787-4.

References

1932 births 2020 deaths Architects from Ticino Swiss people of Italian descent Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Architecture educators École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin People from Mendrisio 20th-century Swiss architects Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland 21st-century Swiss architects {{Switzerland-architect-stub