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Luigi Snozzi (29 July 1932 – 29 December 2020) was a Swiss architect,[1] born in Mendrisio, Ticino. He worked in Locarno and Lugano.
Life
[edit]He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. From 1962 to 1971, Snozzi worked in association with architect Livio Vacchini. From 1982 to 1984, he was a Visiting Professor and in 1985 he was appointed Professor of Architecture at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Snozzi was a professor of the University of Sassari, at the Faculty of Architecture of Alghero, Sardinia.
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Snozzi died in Minusio on 29 December 2020, at the age of 88, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland.[2]
Literature
[edit]- Samuel Penn (ed.): Accounts. Pelinu Books, Bucharest 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
[edit]- ^ "STOA". Mi Modern Architecture. Archived from the original on 2009-06-03. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ Addio a Luigi Snozzi (in Italian)