Museo La Congiunta, Giornico by Peter Märkli Architect

Swiss architect Peter Maerkli won the honorary award of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award 2012 for the archaic art museum La Congiunta in Giornico (Ticino, Switzerland). In this video, he talks about the concept of the architecture of the museum.

The Museum La Congiunta is dedicated to the Swiss artist Hans Josephsohn and houses reliefs and half-figures by the sculptor. Peter Märkli was born in 1953 in Zürich, Switzerland. Since 2003 he is professor at the ETH Zürich.

A video featuring the Daylight-Award 2012 winning project Kirchner Museum Davos by Gigon Guyer Architects is available on this page.

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Museo La Congiunta, Giornico by Peter Märkli Architect

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