Nicola Navone, architect and PhD, is the deputy director of the Archivio del Moderno, a lecturer at the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera italiana, and a member of the Collegio di Dottorato ‘Architecture. Innovation and Heritage’, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre. Among his research interests, ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, he pays particular attention to the emergence of an internationally recognised architecture in Ticino, a subject to which he has dedicated numerous publications as well as the research project ‘Architecture in Canton Ticino, 1945–1980’, which was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.