Architects Pedrozzi and Diaz Saravia studio develops since 1997 architectural, urban and landscape projects and is an architectural consultant for infrastructural projects like the new motorway junction at Bellinzona. Some of its projects such as the holiday home in Pizzada, the restoration of a ruined farmstead in Sceru, the restoration of a farmstead in Sceru and the restructuring of a courtyard house in Pregassona were awarded the prizes New alpine architecture, SIA Ticino and Die Besten. Its projects appeared in publications such as JA, Time+Architecture, Hochparterre, Werk bauen+wohnen, Archi, Architecture Today, Piso and Domus. Its finished projects include the apartment house in Pregassona of 2010, the apartment in Pregassona of 2011, the house in Sonvico of 2011 and the house in Mendrisiorenovation of 2012. Martino Pedrozzi is a Lecturer at the Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio, where he has been Kenneth Frampton assistant and where in 2003 he founded WISH, Workshop on International Social Housing. In 2009 the Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction, Armenia, awarded him the honorary doctorate. He was a Visiting Lecturer at the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Pavia, and a guest critic at some universities including EPFL and ETH. He has had the opportunity to give lectures in Argentina, Mexico, China, South Africa, Italy, UAE, Russia, Brazil and India. In 1998 he worked for three months with Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil. Victoria Diaz Saravia collaborates with the studio since 2004 and became partner in 2011. She has been assistant and guest critic at the Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio, and she won in 2008 the Swiss Art Award with her house in Tucumán, Argentina.