Giovanni Buzzi

Giovanni Buzzi was born in Lugano in 1939. After attending the departement of Architecture (1960-64) and working as a scientific and teaching assistant at the Institute of Local, Regional and National Planning (ORL) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (1964-69),  he received a degree in geography from the University of Basel in 1984. He taught town planning and territorial planning at the Scuola Tecnica Superiore, Lugano (STS, later SUPSI) from 1973 to 1999. He was director of the didactic and research project “Atlante dell’edilizia rurale in Ticino” and editor of the issued volumes, as well as curator of numerous exhibitions, from 1979 to 2000. He has taught at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and Zurich (ETH), the Polytechnic of Milan and the University of Bologna. He was co-owner of the planning firm BKR (later Studi Associati SA) from 1986 to 2006. He was a consultant for the Swiss Foundation for Landscape Protection, for the Ballenberg Open Air Museum of Rural Life and for the Cultural Heritage Office of the Canton Ticino.