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Born in Milan to a wealthy family, he attended the Regio Liceo - Ginnasio Alessandro Manzoni and subsequently the course in Architecture at the Regio Istituto Tecnico Superiore, where he met Giuseppe de Finetti. At the outbreak of the First World War he attended the Military Academy of Turin together with Gio Ponti, and during the war he met Giovanni Muzio and Mino Fiocchi; at the end of the conflict he completed his studies and, after a period of internship at Luca Beltrami's studio, opened a studio in via Sant'Orsola with de Finetti and Muzio. Read the full biography

Born in Milan to a wealthy family, he attended the Regio Liceo - Ginnasio Alessandro Manzoni and subsequently the course in Architecture at the Regio Istituto Tecnico Superiore, where he met Giuseppe de Finetti. At the outbreak of the First World War he attended the Military Academy of Turin together with Gio Ponti, and during the war he met Giovanni Muzio and Mino Fiocchi; at the end of the conflict he completed his studies and, after a period of internship at Luca Beltrami's studio, opened a studio in via Sant'Orsola with de Finetti and Muzio. After some youthful projects, which received considerable appreciation, he began to collaborate continuously with Gio Ponti, creating some projects in the new style called "Novecento", which was linked to the Lombard neoclassical tradition. These were followed by a progressive evolution towards Rationalism, accepted however only in some of its formal aspects, which led to a definitive break with Ponti. Lancia continued his career with several prestigious projects, in which he tried to reconcile rational elements with traditional and monumental ones, aiming for a lasting character of architecture. He died in 1973 in Besozzo.