Flora Ruchat-Roncati
Illustration — Swiss architect and university person, Flora Ruchat-Roncati Flora Ruchat-Roncati (1937–2012) was a Swiss architect and professor. She was from Ticino, and became a pioneering figure in the Ticinese School of architecture, which was influential in the mid-1970s, mixing the sensitivity to the traditional with modernism. She graduated from the ETH Zurich in 1954, and became the first woman professor and chair of Architecture and Design in 1985.
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Flora Ruchat-Roncati
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- Born
- 1937 · Mendrisio.
- Died
- 2012 · Zurich.
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- Switzerland
- Occupation
- architect · university teacher
- Fields
- architecture
- Education
- ETH Zurich
- Languages
- Italian
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She was co-winner, with her assistant Renato Salvi, of a competition to design the Transjurane highway in 1988. The highway joins the Swiss and French road networks through the Jura mountains and involves many tunnels. Eleven of the tunnels are over a kilometre long.
Flora Ruchat-Roncati studied at ETH Zurich. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is architecture. Employment is recorded with ETH Zurich.
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Flora Ruchat-Roncati was an architect, born on 4 June 1937 in Mendrisio and died on 24 October 2012 in Zurich. Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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- 1.Hall, Jane. Breaking ground: architecture by women. Phaidon. 164. 2019. 978-0-7148-7927-7.
- 2.Aita Flury. Cooperation: The Engineer and the Architect. Birkhäuser. 276. 13 December 2012. 978-3-0346-1055-1.
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