Ivano Gianola

Born in Biasca in 1944, Ivano Gianola attended building design school in Zurich between 1960 and 1963. Self-taught by training, in 1966 he opened his own architectural studio in the Corte dell'Inglese in Riva San Vitale. Between 1970 and 1977 he assisted Luigi Snozzi, Ernst Studer and Livio Vacchini in teaching at the Faculty of Architecture of the ETH Zurich as an assistant. In 1977, he moved his studio to Mendrisio, where he still resides today.

From 1980 to 1995 he was a member and president of the Commission for Historic Monuments of the Canton of Ticino and since 2002 of the Federal Commission for the Preservation of Historic Monuments. He was an invited professor at the EAS in Strasbourg (1995-1996) and the ETH in Zurich (1996). In the 1990s, he received a series of public and private commissions abroad, especially in Germany, including projects for the Bayerische Vereinsbank in Munich, while in 2000 he won the international competition for the design of the new LAC cultural centre in Lugano.

His realisations also include: prefabricated kindergarten in Faido (1969); Viggiano house in Cugnasco (1971); Panos house in Faenza (1972); kindergarten in Balerna (1974); renovation of the Tognano centre in Coldrerio (1987); Arnaboldi house in Balerna (1991); conversion of a factory in Plochingen (DE) (1998); Steiger shops in Munich, Dusseldorf and Hamburg (DE) (2000); single-family house-garden in Mendrisio (2003); Gianola terraced houses in Biasca (2005); residential building in Castagnola (2005); Carrion house in Riva S. Vitale (2006); Kunsthalle Central Park in Lugano (2011); Kammel house in Zeuthen (DE) (2013); Küstermann house in Brusino Arsizio (2014); renovation of the kindergarten in Balerna (2018), a protected building constructed in 1974; Grotto Bellavista in Cama (2018).