Raffaele Cavadini

Raffaele Cavadini (Mendrisio, 1954), after beginning his studies at the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (1973-1974), trained at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, where he graduated in 1980. A collaborator of Luigi Snozzi from 1982 to 1985, he opened his own studio in Locarno in 1985, initiating a punctual collaboration with Michele Arnaboldi, which culminated in winning the competition for the Masterplan of Expo 2000 in Hannover. His main works include the Town Hall and the Mortuary Chapel in Iragna (1991-1995), the Oratorio di Porta in Brissago (1991-1996), the Ethnographic Museum in Olivone (1998-2000), the extension of the Brissago Cemetery (2000-2005) and, in the field of the protection of historical monuments the restoration of the Archpriest's House and the Palazzo della Nunziatura in Balerna (2000-2003), the Chapel of Stockalper Castle in Brig (2002-2009), the restoration of the Morchino complex in Paradiso/Pazzallo (2013-2020) and numerous churches in Ticino (Chiggiogna, Cugnasco, Cevio, Rivera, Salorino, Sigirino). He was assistant to Ivano Gianola at the Institut d'Architecture de l'Université de Genève (1981) and to Ernst Studer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, visiting professor at the SCI-Arc in Vico Morcote, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, at the TU in Munich, and lecturer at the Academy of Architecture of the Università della Svizzera italiana. He has been a member of the Commission of Historical Monuments of the Canton of Ticino (1990-2001) and of the Federal Commission of Historical Monuments (1997-2002); he is a member of the Expert Commission of the Monte Carasso Regulatory Plan (since 1995), of the Diocesan Commission of Sacred Art (since 2007) and of the Commission of the Historic Centre of Locarno (since 2007).