Paolo Bürgi

Paolo Bürgi is a Swiss landscape architect.

Career

Paolo Bürgi graduated as a landscape architect from the Rapperswil School of Engineering in 1975, winning first prize. His experience abroad has allowed him to get in touch with architect Luis Barragán, winner of Pritzker Prize in 1980. In 1977 he started his own practice and office of landscape architecture in Camorino, Switzerland.
He teaches at Politecnico di Milano since 2015 and since 1997 he is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and at IUAV University of Venice since 2003.
He has been visiting professor at the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria and at the Knowlton School of Architecture in Columbus, Ohio.
His works focuses particularly on projects on the open space and in relation with architecture, in both the public and private fields, in Switzerland and abroad.
Paolo Bürgi is considered to be one of Europe's most acclaimed landscape architects. Particularly known for creating minimalist landscape interventions that powerfully reveal the essence of a place. Bürgi looks beyond a site's physical boundaries and takes into account its cultural and topographical history.
His work has been presented at several conferences and published in various countries, including: Europe, Korea, Chile, Argentina, China, Japan, Canada, United States.

Esplanade des Particules, a new entrance plaza for CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Cardada: Reconsidering a mountain, Cardada, Switzerland American Heart Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
Venustas et Utilitas – Urban Agriculture, Essen, Germany
Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur - New Art Museum of Grisons, Chur, Switzerland
Hafenplatz, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
Espace Auguste Piccard, Sierre Geronde, Switzerland
Palazzo dei Congressi, Lugano, Switzerland Academy of Architecture – open space design, Mendrisio, Switzerland Motto Grande Quarry Park, Camorino, Switzerland OSC - Casvegno Park, Mendrisio, Switzerland Open-Air Museum on the Carso Goriziano, Gorizia, Italy

2019 "Premio per un giardinaggio evoluto", Orticolario
2019 "Die Besten 2019", CERN Esplanade des Particules, mention in the category "Landscape"
2018 "European Landscape Award", finalists' selection
2014 "Die Besten 2014", Il giardino delel unghe prospettive, mention in the category "Landscape"
2011 "Deutscher Landschaftsarchitektur Preis", mention for the project "Venustas et Utilitas, Zur neuen Ästhetik urbaner Landwirtschaft, Landschaftspark Mechtenberg"
2011 "Premio Internazionale Torsanlorenzo", for the project American Heart Institute in Cyprus
2003 "European Landscape Award" prize for the project Cardada, Reconsidering a mountain
2003 "Die Besten 03 - bronze" prize for the project Kreuzlingen Hafenplatz
1988 "Premio ASPAN" for the Motto Grande Quarry project in Camorino