Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Established | 1996 |
| Director | Walter Angonese |
Academic staff | 100 |
| Students | 600 |
| Location | , , |
| Website | www.arc.usi.ch |
The Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (AAM) is a Swiss school of architecture and is a founding unit of Università della Svizzera italiana (USI).
History
The Accademia was founded in 1996 by Mario Botta,[1] whose influences were Kenneth Frampton, Luigi Snozzi and Aurelio Galfetti.
Notable faculty
Present
- Walter Angonese
- Valentin Bearth
- Riccardo Blumer
- Marc Collomb
- Yvonne Farrell
- Kersten Geers
- Jun'ya Ishigami
- Aires Mateus
- Shelley McNamara
- Quintus Miller
- Valerio Olgiati
- Muck Petzet
Emeritus
- Mario Botta
- Michele Arnaboldi
- Peter Zumthor
Former
- Francesco Dal Co
- François Charbonnet
- Angela Deuber
- Pascal Flammer
- Kenneth Frampton
- Nathan Ghiringhelli
- Romina Grillo
- François Grin
- Aurelio Galfetti
- Patrick Heiz
- Anne Holtrop
- Bijoy Jain
- Gilles Kepel
- Diébédo Francis Kéré
- Enrico Molteni
- Georg Nickisch
- Matteo Poli
- Maurus Schifferli
- Eduardo Souto de Moura
- Francesca Torzo
- Javier Miguel Verme
- Selina Walder
- Jonathan Woolf
- Philipp Wündrich
- Elia Zenghelis
- Raphael Zuber