(b Milan, 5 March 1892; d Milan, 19 Jan 1952). Italian architect. He left Milan in 1912 and went first to Berlin and then to Vienna where he studied under Adolf Loos (1913-15). Returning to Italy in 1920, he graduated from the Istituto di Belle Arti in Bologna (1920) and then settled permanently in Milan (1921) where all his executed works are located. Initially his interest centred on the design of hotels, and in 1923 he edited the building sections of the Manuale dell'industria alberghiera. In the same year he designed and built the Hotel Touring, Via Parini, in a style that favoured the burgeoning Novecento Italiano, and by 1926 he was participating in the competition for Milan's urban development with some of its members. The Casa della Meridiana (1924-5), Via Marchiondi, a six-storey, stucco-faced building housing five flats, is possibly his best-known work. He combined elements of the modern architecture of Loos

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