Santino Solari belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Santino Solari as Italian architect (1576-1646).
Santino Solari was born at Lugano in 1576. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
The Renaissance made the architect an individual with a signature, a theory and a reputation, working from drawings rather than on site.
He is recorded as sculptor and architect.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Switzerland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Santino Solari died in 1646, aged 70. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
