The Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio (TAM), built on the Campus of the Accademia di architettura– Università della Svizzera italiana, was designed by Mario Botta, promoted and realized thanks to the joint work of the Università della Svizzera italiana and the Fondazione Teatro dell’architettura, in order to offer a space for the cultural debate on architecture, the city, the landscape. In addition to the teaching and research activities carried out within the university, this initiative aims to encourage new initiatives that strengthen the educational offer, particularly in reference to exhibitions and seminars, and at the same time give visibility to new transdisciplinary interests that increasingly intervene in the design process and redefine the social role of architecture.

The mission of Teatro dell’architettura is to act as a laboratory of ideas and events, a place of experimentation, a platform for exchange with other institutions and, above all, a contemporary tool that perceives and transmits the cultural trends taking place at local, national and international level.