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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1996 |
| Director | Walter Angonese |
| Academic staff | 100 |
| Students | 600 |
| Location | Mendrisio, Ticino, Switzerland |
| Website | www.arc.usi.ch |
The Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (AAM) is a Swiss school of architecture and is a founding unit of Università della Svizzera italiana (USI).
History
The Accademia was founded in 1996 by Mario Botta, whose influences were Kenneth Frampton, Luigi Snozzi and Aurelio Galfetti.
Notable faculty
Present
- Walter Angonese
- Valentin Bearth
- Riccardo Blumer
- Marc Collomb
- Yvonne Farrell
- Kersten Geers
- Jun'ya Ishigami
- Aires Mateus
- Shelley McNamara
- Quintus Miller
- Valerio Olgiati
- Muck Petzet
Emeritus
Former
- Francesco Dal Co
- François Charbonnet
- Angela Deuber
- Pascal Flammer
- Kenneth Frampton
- Nathan Ghiringhelli
- Romina Grillo
- François Grin
- Aurelio Galfetti
- Patrick Heiz
- Anne Holtrop
- Bijoy Jain
- Gilles Kepel
- Diébédo Francis Kéré
- Enrico Molteni
- Georg Nickisch
- Matteo Poli
- Maurus Schifferli
- Eduardo Souto de Moura
- Francesca Torzo
- Javier Miguel Verme
- Selina Walder
- Jonathan Woolf
- Philipp Wündrich
- Elia Zenghelis
- Raphael Zuber