Mauro Turin Architectes

We believe that research is fundamental for our projects and buildings to possess deep contents that can be translated into vital and lasting experiences.

We believe that to be contemporary is to conceive projects and buildings that could not be understood unless we precipitate them to an uncertain future, knowing that only the passage of time will be able to give them the real value of representation within society. To be really contemporary is to assume this risk.
We have as final aspiration that they acquire, when the time has done its work, this aptitude to represent a society.

We believe that in these times where everything and nothing is valid, where everything is consumed and wasted with comparable celerity, there are spaces where we can move outside of passing fashions. Where we can investigate, develop and propose with the certitude that some of the projects and resultant buildings will have a possibility of installing themselves in the future – which has by then become the present - acquiring thus the status of figures without time.

2010
Detention Center for Minors. 5th prize. Open competition. Palézieux, Switzerland.

2009
Parliament of Vaud State. Selected office. International competition. Lausanne, Switzerland.

2008
Museum of Ethnography. 2nd prize. International competition. Geneva, Switzerland.

2007
Retirement home. 3rd prize. Open competition. Orsières, Switzerland.
Gard Courts of the Campus of Justice. 20 finalists. International competition. Madrid, Spain.
Swiss-french Fundation of deaf and blind people. Shortlisted. Open competition. Monthey, Switzerland.
Kindergarten, maternal school and sport pavillon. Shortlisted. Open competition. Attalens, Switzerland.

2006
Retirement home, Drize. Shortlisted. Open competition. Geneva, Switzerland.

2005
EPFL new neighborhood . Shortlisted. Open competition. Saint Sulpice, Switzerland.

2004
Shelter for 25 cows. 1st prize. Open competition. Forel, Switzerland.
Scients Informatic Faculty of the Swiss-italian University. 6th prize. Open competition. Lugano, Switzerland.

2003
Fire Station. 6th prize. Open competition. Founnex, Switzerland.

2001
21 countries for the new century project. Mention ex-aequo. International competition for American Continent.
Engineers and Architects Council. Special honorable mention. Provincial competition. La Pampa, Argentina.

2000
Bus Station. Honorable mention. Provincial competition. La Pampa, Argentina.

1999
College of Barristers. 2nd prize. Provincial competition. La Pampa, Argentina.

1997
Fire Station. 1st prize. On invitation competition. La Pampa, Argentina.

2009
Hochparterre wettbewerbe 1/2009.Switzerland.

2008 Europaconcorsi: homepage - website of contemporary architecture. Italie.

2004
Archi rivista svizzera di architettura 3/2004. Switzerland.
Summa+ 69. Argentina.
Book XIV Bienal de Arquitectura BAQ2004. Equateur.

2002
Solo casas. Argentina.

2001
Summa+ 50. Argentina.
Clarin arquitectura. Argentina.
El cronista arquitectura. Argentina.
Solo casas. Argentina.

2001 Annual National Prize Solo Casas. Argentina.
2000 Annual Provincial Prize of Architecture. La Pampa, Argentina.

2004
Argentina new Architecture. Fine Arts Museum. Santa Fe, Argentina.
XIV Bienal de Arquitectura BAQ2004. Quito, Equateur.

2009
Critique externe Haute École du Paysage, d’Ingénierie et d’Architecture de Genève HEPIA
2007
Critique externe Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid ETSAM.
2007
Assistant chargé des cours architectes invités Sancho-Madridejos École Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne EPFL.
2006
Assistant chargé des cours architectes invités Mansilla-Tuñon École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL.