Bruno Brocchi

Bruno Brocchi (Montagnola, Ticino Canton, 1927) graduated as an architect from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1952. During his studies, he became friends with Alain Tschumi (later active as an architect in Biel and the Jura, where he was born in 1928) and Dolf Schnebli, with whom he also attended a CIAM summer course in Venice. His collaboration with Alberto Camenzind began early on, already during high school and his studies at the ETH, and was consolidated once he had qualified as an architect, culminating in 1959 in the role of associate. Camenzind's involvement as project coordinator for the Swiss National Exhibition in 1964 gave Brocchi a crucial role in the firm, consolidated by Camenzind's call to Zurich in 1965 with the title of full professor. Among the numerous works by the two architects, mention should be made here of the Ginnasio (today Scuola media 1) in Bellinzona (1954-1958), the Alfa Romeo car dealership in Agno (built 1962-1963), the Quartiere Maghetti in Lugano (1955-1985), numerous single-family and holiday homes, including Casa Luban in Ascona (1967-1968). In 1972, he began working with the Camenzind-Brocchi Roberto Sennhauser studio, who became a partner until the partnership was dissolved in 1991. Since 1960, Brocchi has also worked with Dolf Schnebli and Gianluigi Bisagni on numerous town planning and zoning projects. With Bisagni and Paolo Fumagalli, Brocchi is at the origin of the Fondazione Archivi Architetti Ticinesi.