Vittorio Pedrocchi

Vittorio Pedrocchi was born in 1936 in Zurich to a family from Muralto. He studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (1955-1960), where his professors were Alfred Roth, Paul Waltenspühl and Rino Tami, and his fellow students were Mario Campi, Giancarlo Durisch, Aurelio Galfetti and Flora Ruchat-Roncati. Immediately after graduating, he travelled to the United States to visit the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. On his return in 1960, he opened his own studio in Locarno.

In addition to a number of single-family villas and flat houses, his main projects include several school buildings, including the primary schools in Muralto (1963-1969) and the one in Losone (1969), the middle school in Gordola (1978-1981) and the elementary and infant school in Riazzino (1994-1996).