Background
Livio Vacchini was born in Locarno.
Livio Vacchini was born in Locarno.
From 1953 to 1958 he studied architecture at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
After a stay in Stockholm and Paris from 1959 to 1961, he established his own architecture studio in Locarno called Studio Vacchini architetti, working closely with Luigi Snozzi and Silvia Gmür. The works of Livio Vacchini 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 Auguste Perret, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Louis Kahn.
An extreme reduction of structural elements is present in all his designs.
Livio Vacchini designed houses, office buildings, schools and community facilities in Switzerland and France. His major works are the school of Montagnola near Locarno, his own house in Costa (Switzerland) or the school of architecture of Nancy (France).
