Livio Vacchini
Información General
- Autores: Roberto Masiero
- Editores: Barcelona : Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L.
- Año de publicación: 1999
- País: España
- Idioma: inglés
- ISBN: 84-252-1784-9
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Contents:
Before and After the Classical. On the work of Livio Vacchini, Roberto Masiero
Works and projects
Low-cost housing. Locarno, 1965.
Snider house. Verscio, 1965.
Fabrizia office building. Bellnizona, 1965.
Vacchini house. Ascona, 1969.
Ai Saleggi elementary school. Locarno, 1978.
Middle school. Losone, 1973.
First International Film Festival. Locarno, 1971.
Marconi office building. Lugano, 1975.
Rezzonico house. Vogorno, 1985.
Maria Hostel. Dietlikon, 1983.
Fumagalli house. Ascona, 1985.
Ascona Lido, 1986.
"Collina d'Oro" elementary school. Montagnola, 1984.
Alfredo apartment building. Dietlikon, 1986.
Vacchini studio, 1985.
Vacchini house. Coste Tenero, 1992.
School of Architecture. Nancy, 1995.
Apartment rue Albert. Paris, 1993.
Post office. Locarno, 1995.
Service centre. Locarno, 1998.
Morettina power plant. Locarno, 1996.
Aurora House. Lugano, 1995.
State Bank of Ticino Canton. Brissago, 1998.
Multyfunctional gymnasium. Losone, 1997.
Piazza del Sole. Bellinzona, 1998.
House of the Three Women. Beinwil am See, 1998.
Basel Cantonal Hospital, 1998.
Bibliography
Chronology
Descripción principal
Livio Vacchini (Locarno, 1933) is an architect whose designs feature an extreme coherence of theme and practice. Each project is conceived ideally as the continuation of the lines of research explored by modern architects of the "classical" tradition , like Perret, Mies van der Rohe and Kahn. The extreme reduction of structural elements is present in all his designs of the 1990's: a multi-purpose hall at Losone, the Aurora apartment block at Lugano, a service facility at Locarno and the School of Architecture in Nancy. This volume deals with the complex themes of separate constructions and his personal theory of architecture, and lays particular stress on the most significant phases in the development of one of the most celebrated of all Swiss architects.
Extracto del libro
After taking a degree in architecture at the Federal Polytechnic of Zurich in 1958, and a period of further training abroad an in Switzerland, Vacchini worked for five years (beginning in 1968) with Luigi Snozzi, the architect who more than any other has contributed to the creation of the particular cultural climate that, since the second half of the 1960's, has favoured the development in the Ticino Canton of a group of talented architects whose works had a great influence on the architecture of the following two decades. When the period with Snozzi ended (a period marked by many designs for competitions and several constructed works, such as the UBS building in Ascona and the residential complex in Carasso), Vacchini worked occasionally with Aurelio Galfetti. With Galfetti he designed the middle school in Losone (1973-1975), precisely in the period in which an exhibition organised at the Zurich Polytechnic and its catalogue, Tendenzen. Nuere Architektur im Tessin (1975) contributed to spreading and awareness of the work of the Ticenese architects, laying the groundwork for the international recognition that was soon to come. Whether in the narrow panorama of Ticenese architecture or in the wider context of activity that began in the mid-1980, Vacchini's work, as Roberto Masiero explains in the lengthy essay published in the initial pages of this volume, have stood out as to their independence and originally. As this book illustrates, the most important values of the works built by Vacchini lie precisely in their intentional "untimeliness": indifferent to novelty, interested only in respecting a inner coherence, detached, far from the chatter and gossip of the world of architecture of our time. This volume deals with the complex themes of separate constructions and his personal theory of architecture, and lays particular stress on the most significant phases in the development of one of the most celebrated of all Swiss architects.
Gustavo Gili had already published a monograph on Livio Vacchini in the Current Architecture Catalogues series, but this volume presents a larger look at his work.
