Talk:Luigi Snozzi

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The result was: promoted by Z1720 (talk) 03:04, 10 September 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that award-winning Swiss architect Luigi Snozzi became an EPFL professor only after students staged a sit-in over the withdrawal of his appointment?

• Source: :HLS verification: "1985 und 1993 erhielt Snozzi den Architekturpreis Beton, 1993 den Architekturpreis Prince of Wales der Harvard University" Source

Translation: "In 1985 and 1993, Snozzi received the Beton Architecture Prize, and in 1993 the Prince of Wales Architecture Prize from Harvard University."

Architekturbibliothek verification: "2018 erhielt er den Prix Meret Oppenheim." Source

Translation: "In 2018, he received the Prix Meret Oppenheim."

EPFL verification: "During its processing, the appointment was suddenly withdrawn […] The students organised a demonstration and staged a sit-in in the president’s office […] This strategy succeeded and Snozzi ended up directing a large studio there until 1997." Source

• • Reviewed: [[Template:Did you know nominations/Esmeralda Agoglia]]
  • Comment: The article was expanded more than 7-fold: from 667 bytes (109 words) on 14 November 2023 to 5,263 bytes (812 words) on 7 August 2026.

5x expanded by HerBauhaus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

HerBauhaus · talk 19:09, 7 August 2026 (UTC).

• @HerBauhaus:

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Luigi Snozzi, now that's a good name! Great article expansion all around, kudos. Encyclopedic style is maintained throughout, and the layout of the article is solid. No typos to my eyes, should be good to go. P.S. below.

I am a little skeeved by the given source for the sit-in, it is attributed to a quote in the exhibition description, but who is being quoted & the author of the exhibition description are unclear. Does another source support this claim? I dug in on it and found that the exhibition posting elsewhere on the site - as you have cited on the page - is tagged with Laurent Stalder and none of the other presenters, which I'm going to understand as authorship. I went ahead and plunked it in.

Also, I added some redlinks to the page; both some QID wikidata links to increase the web, and the Torino School, which German Wikipedia has similarly redlinked: de:Bruno Brocchi Just seeding some future developments.

 ——— chickenpox4dinner (talk · contribs · email) 20:51, 10 August 2026 (UTC)