Luigi Snozzi

Luigi Snozzi (29 July 1932 – 29 December 2020) was a Swiss architect,^[1] born in Mendrisio, Ticino. He worked in Locarno and Lugano.

Life

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.

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

• 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.

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