Paolo Bürgi

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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.burgi.ch/index.php/portfolio/firm-profile/|title=F I R M & P R O F I L E}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://papress.com/|title=Princeton Architectural Press|website=Princeton Architectural Press}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.burgi.ch/|title=Studio Bürgi – Landscape Architecture}}

• {{Lang|fr|Esplanade des Particules}}, a new entrance plaza for CERN, Geneva, Switzerland {{Cite web|url=http://www.burgi.ch/index.php/portfolio/cern-route-de-meyrin/|title=CERN}}{{Cite web|url=https://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/etat-de-geneve-cern-and-commune-de-meyrin-announce-start-work-esplanade-des|title=The Etat de Genève, CERN and the Commune de Meyrin announce the start of work on the Esplanade des Particules in Meyrin|website=CERN}}
• Cardada: Reconsidering a mountain, Cardada, Switzerland {{Cite web|url=http://www.burgi.ch/index.php/portfolio/reconsidering-a-mountain/|title=RECONSIDERING A MOUNTAIN}}{{Cite web|url=http://landezine.com/index.php/2010/05/cardada-viewpoint/|title=Cardada Viewpoint by Paolo L. Bürgi « Landscape Architecture Platform | Landezine}}
• American Heart Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus {{Cite web|url=http://www.burgi.ch/index.php/portfolio/cardiology-instutute/|title=CARDIOLOGY INSTUTUTE}}
• {{Lang|la|Venustas et Utilitas}} – Urban Agriculture, Essen, Germany {{Cite web|url=http://www.burgi.ch/index.php/portfolio/venustas-et-utilitas/|title=VENUSTAS ET UTILITAS}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.arquitectes.cat/iframes/paisatge/|title=Landscape|website=www.arquitectes.cat}}
• {{Lang|de|Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur}} - New Art Museum of Grisons, Chur, Switzerland {{Cite web|url=http://www.burgi.ch/index.php/portfolio/erweiterung-bundner-kunstmuseum/|title=ERWEITERUNG BÜNDNER KUNSTMUSEUM CHUR}}{{Cite web|url=https://arqa.com/arquitectura/fine-arts-museum.html|title=Museo de Bellas Artes, en Chur|date=December 22, 2015|website=ARQA}}
• {{Lang|de|Hafenplatz}}, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland {{Cite web|url=http://www.burgi.ch/index.php/portfolio/kreuzlingen-hafenplatz/|title=KREUZLINGEN HAFENPLATZ}}{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/papress/docs/paoloburgi_screen|title=Paolo Burgi Landscape Architect: Discovering the (Swiss) Horizon: Mountain, Lake, and Forest|website=Issuu}}
• {{Lang|fr|Espace Auguste Piccard}}, Sierre Geronde, Switzerland {{Cite web|url=http://www.burgi.ch/index.php/portfolio/espace-auguste-piccard/|title=ESPACE AUGUSTE PICCARD}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.slant.eu/Paolo%20L.Burgi.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-01-25 |archive-date=2018-03-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323155238/http://www.slant.eu/Paolo%20L.Burgi.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=arc-001:2010:-::626 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-01-25 |archive-date=2018-03-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323155533/https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=arc-001:2010:-::626 |url-status=dead }}
• {{Lang|it|Palazzo dei Congressi}}, Lugano, Switzerland {{Cite web|url=http://www.burgi.ch/index.php/portfolio/palazzo-dei-congressi/|title=PALAZZO DEI CONGRESSI}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=arc-001:2004:-::661 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-01-25 |archive-date=2018-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324041106/https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=arc-001:2004:-::661 |url-status=dead }}
• Academy of Architecture – open space design, Mendrisio, Switzerland {{Cite web|url=http://www.burgi.ch/index.php/portfolio/usi-universita-della-svizzera-italiana/|title=ARC USI // ACCADEMIA DI ARCHITETTURA}}
• Motto Grande Quarry Park, Camorino, Switzerland {{Cite web|url=http://www.burgi.ch/index.php/portfolio/motto-grande/|title=MOTTO GRANDE QUARRY PARK}}
• OSC - Casvegno Park, Mendrisio, Switzerland {{Cite web|url=http://www.burgi.ch/index.php/portfolio/parco-di-casvegno/|title=PARCO DI CASVEGNO}}
• Open-Air Museum on the Carso Goriziano, Gorizia, Italy {{Cite web|url=https://carso2014.it/noleggio-a-lungo-termine-senza-partita-iva-e-realmente-possibile/|title=Noleggio a lungo termine senza partita IVA: è realmente possibile?|date=August 8, 2021}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.burgi.ch/index.php/portfolio/carso/|title=CARSO}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.a4plus.it/?p=476|title=Museo all'aperto sul Carso goriziano | Studio A4plus}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ-1xtw5I1U|title=Panorama from Doberdò, "Carso 2014+ // Open air Museum", Italy|via=www.youtube.com}}http://www.platform-ad.com/un-museo-della-memoria-a-cielo-aperto-per-lanniversario-della-grande-guerra-carso-2014-by-studio-burgi/ {{Dead link|date=July 2022}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.platform-ad.com/un-museo-della-memoria-a-cielo-aperto-per-lanniversario-della-grande-guerra-carso-2014-by-studio-burgi-2/nggallery/image/redipuglia-area-belvedere-carso-2014-by-studio-burgi/thumbnails |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-01-25 |archive-date=2018-03-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323155318/http://www.platform-ad.com/un-museo-della-memoria-a-cielo-aperto-per-lanniversario-della-grande-guerra-carso-2014-by-studio-burgi-2/nggallery/image/redipuglia-area-belvedere-carso-2014-by-studio-burgi/thumbnails |url-status=dead }}

• 2019 "{{Lang|it|Premio per un giardinaggio evoluto}}", Orticolario
• 2019 "{{Lang|de|Die Besten 2019}}", CERN {{Lang|fr|Esplanade des Particules|italic=no}}, mention in the category "Landscape"
• 2018 "European Landscape Award", finalists' selection
• 2014 "{{Lang|de|Die Besten 2014}}", {{Lang|it|Il giardino delel unghe prospettive}}, mention in the category "Landscape"
• 2011 "{{Lang|de|Deutscher Landschaftsarchitektur Preis}}", mention for the project "{{Lang|la|Venustas et Utilitas}}, {{Lang|de|Zur neuen Ästhetik urbaner Landwirtschaft, Landschaftspark Mechtenberg}}"
• 2011 "{{Lang|it|Premio Internazionale Torsanlorenzo}}", for the project American Heart Institute in Cyprus
• 2003 "European Landscape Award" prize for the project Cardada, Reconsidering a mountain
• 2003 "{{Lang|de|Die Besten 03 - bronze}}" prize for the project {{Lang|de|Kreuzlingen Hafenplatz|italic=no}}
• 1988 "Premio ASPAN" for the Motto Grande Quarry project in Camorino

• John Dixon Hunt - Historical Ground - The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture, Routledge 2014 {{cite book|last1=Hunt|first1=John Dixon|title=Historical Ground - The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture|date=2014|publisher=Routledge|location=Oxon|isbn=978-0415814133}}
• Regionalverband Ruhr - Unter freiem Himmel - Under the Open Sky - Emscher Landschaftspark, 2013 {{cite book|title=Unter freiem Himmel - Under the Open Sky - Emscher Landschaftspark|publisher=Regionalverband Ruhr|isbn=978-3-0346-0266-2}}
• 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: {{Lang|zh-latn|Zhongguo jianzhu gongye chubanshe|italic=no}}, 2012 (China Architecture % Building Press)
• John Dixon Hunt (transl. V. Morabito) - Sette lezioni sul paesaggio, 2012 {{cite book|last1=Dixon Hunt|first1=John|last2=Morabito|first2=Valerio|title=Sette lezioni sul paesaggio|date=2012|publisher=Libria|isbn=978-8896067888}}
• Massimo Venturi Ferriolo - Paesaggi: Sguardo dal Theatron, L'Orbicolare, 2007 {{cite book|last1=Venturi Ferriolo|first1=Massimo|title=Paesaggi: Sguardo dal Theatron (a cura di Daniele Perrotti)|date=2007|publisher=L'Orbicolare|location=Milano|isbn=978-8895061368}}
• Michel Conan - Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations, Dumbarton Oaks 2007 {{cite book|last1=Conan|first1=Michel|title=Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations|date=June 2007|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Dumbarton Oaks|isbn=9780884023258}}
• Monika Suter, Peter Egli - {{Lang|de|Die schönsten Garten und Parks der Schweiz}}, 2006 {{cite book|last1=Suter|first1=Monika|last2=Egli|first2=Peter|title=Die schönsten Garten und Parks der Schweiz|date=March 2006|publisher=Schweizer Heimatschutz|isbn=978-3033007284}}
• John Dixon Hunt - The Afterlife of Gardens, University of Pennsylvania Press - Reaktion Books LTD, 2004 {{cite book|last1=Dixon Hunt|first1=John|title=The Afterlife of Gardens|date=2012|publisher=Reaktion Books LTD|location=England|isbn=978-0812238464}}
• Michael Rohde, Rainer Schomann - Historic Gardens Today, Leipzig, 2004 {{cite book|last1=Rohde|first1=Michael|last2=Schomann|first2=Rainer|title=Historic Gardens Today|date=30 April 2004|publisher=Seemann Henschel|isbn=978-3361005785}}
• {{Lang|it|Solo con naturaleza (Catalogo de la III Bienal Europea de Paisaje III Premio Europeo de Paisaje Rosa Barba)}}, 2003 {{cite book|title=Solo con naturaleza (Catalogo de la III Bienal Europea de Paisaje III Premio Europeo de Paisaje Rosa Barba)|date=2003|isbn=9788493468835|last1=Chiva|first1=Jordi Bellmunt I.}}
• Claudia Cassatella, Francesca Bagliani - {{Lang|it|Creare Paesaggi, Realizzazioni, Teorie e Progetti in Europa}}, 2003 {{cite book|last1=Cassatella|first1=Claudia|last2=Bagliani|first2=Francesca|title=Creare paesaggi realizzazioni, teorie e progetti in Europa. Atti del Convegno (Torino, 9-24 maggio 2002)|date=2003|publisher=Alinea|isbn=978-8881256174}}
• John Dixon Hunt - Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory, 2000 {{cite book|last1=Dixon Hunt|first1=John|title=Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory|date=2000|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|location=Philadelphia|isbn=978-0812235067}}

{{Reflist}}

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• [http://www.burgi.ch Studio Bürgi – Landscape Architecture]
• [http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2010/05/cardada-viewpoint/ Cardada Viewpoint by Paolo L. Bürgi « Landscape Architecture Platform | Landezine]
• [http://www.landschaftsarchitektur-heute.de/projekte/details/1139 Landschaftsarchitektur heute - bdla - Landschaftsarchitektur heute - bdla]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20141019202455/http://www.cdan.info/web/Boletines/0805/Newsletter_0805_WEB_Paolo_Burgi.htm @ Paolo Bürgi website - CDAN NEWSLETTER MAY 2008]
• [http://www.awmagazin.de/designerlexikon/designer-architekten-mit-b/galerie/paolo-buergi PAOLO BÜRGI]

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