Ivano Gianola

The LAC cultural center in Lugano

Ivano Gianola (born February 16, 1944 in Biasca ) is a Swiss architect of the Ticino School, the so-called Tendenza .

Career

Gianola completed an apprenticeship as a draftsman in Zurich from 1960 to 1963 , but did not study architecture. In 1966 he opened his own office in Riva San Vitale , with which he moved to Mendrisio in 1977.

Gianola was and is extensively active in teaching; from 1970 and 1973 to 1977 he held teaching positions at the ETH Zurich with Luigi Snozzi , Ernst Studer and Livio Vacchini , where he also held a visiting professorship in 1995/96. In other visiting professorships he taught in Geneva (1982), Syracuse (New York) (1983) and Nancy (1985), at the SCI-Arc in Vico Morcote (1986) and in Strasbourg (1995). 1980 to 1995 he took a seat in the commission for the historical monuments of the canton Ticino , from 2002 in the federal commission for monument preservation EKD. He was accepted into the Association of Swiss Architects in 1981 and has been an honorary member of the Association of German Architects since 1996 .

After the small works of the early days that were noticed by the professional world, mainly single-family houses, such as the block-like exposed concrete construction of a three-storey house in Cugnasco , but also the kindergarten in Balerna , Gianola also built several times in southern Germany from the 1980s, including being involved in the building complex , which became known under the name of Fünf Höfe in Munich at the turn of the millennium . Since the turn of the millennium, he has been building some very exclusive villas in Ticino, including some very radical ones again, such as the Casa-Giardino, which in Mendrisio is only recognizable as a simple concrete wall on the street with almost no openings and its luxury, the garden, inside unfolds.

His late main work, along with much-noticed smaller buildings from the 1970s and larger office buildings from the 1980s and 1990s, mainly in Germany, is probably the LAC art and culture center , which opened in 2015 in Lugano .

Works

• Casa à Cugnasco , 1970–71
• Primary school, Balerna , 1971–74
• Casa Lambrughi, Novazzano , single-family house, 1973–74
• Single-family home, Vacallo , 1974–75
• Casa Rusconi, Castel San Pietro , single-family house, 1983–84
• Casa alle Orsoline, Mendrisio, 1983-84
• Centro Tognano, Villa di Coldrerio , 1985-87
• Housing development, Pregassona , 1988–90
• Borgo , Business Center, Biasca, 1988-91
• Borgo, Business Center, Biasca, 1988-91
• Casa Arnaboldi, Balerna , 1988-91
• Platz house, Saulgau , 1991–92
• Schmidt House, Augsburg , 1991–93
• Atelier, Mendrisio , 1991-94
• Conversion of a factory, Bruckenwasen, Plochingen , 1991–94
• Reconstruction of blocks of houses in Munich city center, Schäfflerhof , Maffeihof , Hypovereinsbank , Munich , 1997–2000
• Steiger shops, Munich, Düsseldorf , Hamburg , 2000
• Casa-Giardino , (house-garden), Mendrisio , 2003
• Six terraced houses, Biasca , 2004–05
• Apartment building, Castagnola , 2004–05
• Casa Carrion, Riva San Vitale , 2006-07
• Lugano Arte e Cultura (LAC), Lugano, 2002–15

literature

• Katia Accossato, Nicola Probst (eds.): Ivano Gianola. Buildings and Projects. Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart / London 2007. ISBN 978-3-930698-97-4 .
• Paolo Fumagalli: Gianola, Ivano. In: AKL (General Artist Lexicon). De Gruyter Reference Global, Berlin 2009 ff.
• Roman Hollenstein: A feeling for forms . Ed .: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Zurich December 15, 2008 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 19, 2018]).

Web links

• Ivano Gianola. In: arch INFORM .