#livio vacchini

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Casa Beheim (1961-62) in Locarno, Switzerland, by Livio Vacchini

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Gym . Losone . Switzerland . Livio Vacchini

www.studiovacchini.ch

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How Ticino architecture fused tradition with modernism

The architectural scene of southern Switzerland rose to international prominence in the 1970s. Like the careers of Luigi Snozzi, Mario Botta, Aurelio Galfetti and Livio Vacchini, Flora Ruchat-Roncati’s also began in Ticino. For many people, architecture is still thought to be an enduring male domain. This was certainly true back in 1985, when the first woman to receive a professorship at the prestigious federal technology institute ETH Zurich was an architect: Flora Ruchat-Roncati. By then, Ruchat-Roncati, who died in 2012, had worked on residential architecture in Rome and created several buildings. Many of these were the product of various cooperative endeavours and working groups with other professionals, most of them men. For many, her main achievement is the public swimming pool in the southern Swiss town of Bellinzona. The Bagno di Bellinzona was completed in 1970 and designed together with Aurelio Galfetti and Ivo Trümpy. Others point to her tunnel entrances... https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/how-ticino-architecture-fused-tradition-with-modernism/49087378?utm_campaign=swi-rss&utm_source=multiple&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=o (Source of the original content)

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Gas station in Bellinzona Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland; 1985

Livio Vacchini (photography by Alberto Flammer)

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via "Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme" 167-168 (1985)

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Livio Vacchini , Rezzonico House (1984-85)     Vogorno, Ticino, Switzerland

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Livio Vacchini – Studio di architettura

1985, Locarno (CH)

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Körfer house Ronco sopra Ascona, Switzerland 1998–2005 Livio Vacchini (1933–2007), architect Alessandra Chemollo (1963–), photographer

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Livio Vacchini, Palestra, Losone, 1995-97.

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Livio Vacchini - Casa Aurora, Lugano 1995. Photos (C) Alo Zanetta.

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1978 Scuola elementare Ai Saleggi / Livio Vacchini DISTORTED COLUMNS

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PONG, Atari, 1972 VS Livio Vacchini, Gymnasium, Losone, Switzerland,1995-1997

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Scuola Media (1973-75) in Losone, Switzerland, by Aurelio Galfetti & Livio Vacchini

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Vacchini Studio Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland; 1984-85

Livio Vacchini (photography by Giorgio Tognola; Alberto Flammer)

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via “Werk, Bauen + Wohnen” 73 (1986)