Paolo Burgi

Paolo Bürgi (born 4 September 1947, in Muralto) is a Swiss landscape architect.

Career Paolo Bürgi graduated as a landscape architect from the Rapperswil School of Engineering (Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil) 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. 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.

Selected projects , a new entrance plaza for CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Cardada: Reconsidering a mountain, Cardada, Switzerland American Heart Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus – Urban Agriculture, Essen, Germany - New Art Museum of Grisons, Chur, Switzerland , Kreuzlingen, Switzerland , Sierre Geronde, Switzerland , 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

Prizes and achievements 2019 "", Orticolario 2019 "", CERN , mention in the category "Landscape" 2018 "European Landscape Award", finalists' selection 2014 "", , mention in the category "Landscape" 2011 "", mention for the project ", " 2011 "", for the project American Heart Institute in Cyprus 2003 "European Landscape Award" prize for the project Cardada, Reconsidering a mountain 2003 "" prize for the project 1988 "Premio ASPAN" for the Motto Grande Quarry project in Camorino Regionalverband Ruhr - Unter freiem Himmel - Under the Open Sky - Emscher Landschaftspark, 2013 Xin Wu - Restoring Landscape Design as an Art, Conversations between Xin Wu and seven contemporary landscape designers from China, EU and US: 7 Paolo Bürgi - Between Design and Creative Interpretation, Beijing: , 2012 (China Architecture % Building Press) John Dixon Hunt (transl. V. Morabito) - Sette lezioni sul paesaggio, 2012 Massimo Venturi Ferriolo - Paesaggi: Sguardo dal Theatron, L'Orbicolare, 2007 Michel Conan - Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations, Dumbarton Oaks 2007 Monika Suter, Peter Egli - , 2006 John Dixon Hunt - The Afterlife of Gardens, University of Pennsylvania Press - Reaktion Books LTD, 2004 Michael Rohde, Rainer Schomann - Historic Gardens Today, Leipzig, 2004 , 2003 Claudia Cassatella, Francesca Bagliani - , 2003 John Dixon Hunt - Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory, 2000