In the mid-1970s, a series of projects by Swiss architects from the canton of Ticino began to attract the attention of specialized critics. This group of architects, including Luigi Snozzi, Livio Vacchini, Aurelio Galfetti, and Mario Botta, with their original ethical and aesthetic approach offered a powerful alternative to the skepticism and doubts that followed the unstoppable crisis of the Modern Movement. The work of these friends, while eminently local and exclusively professional in nature, would transcend borders over the next two decades and transform the architecture of the Italian-speaking Swiss canon into a global reference, widely disseminated, studied, and valued.