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Lingeri, Pietro
(b Tremezzo, 25 Jan 1894; d Tremezzo, 15 May 1968). Italian architect. He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, in 1926. A member of the Italian Rationalist movement, he was particularly active in the group from Como that participated alongside the GRUPPO 7 and MIAR in the struggles to assert the values of Modernist architecture in Italy. His design for the headquarters of the Club Motonautico A.M.I.L.A. (1926), Tremezzo, was among the first projects of Italian Rationalism to be built and was publicized by Giuseppe Pagano in the magazine Casabella. Lingeri also redesigned (1930) the Galleria Il Milione in Milan, which was at that time the centre of the Milanese avant-garde. Between 1926 and 1940 he collaborated regularly with the leading Rationalist Giuseppe Terragni on a number of important works, including a war memorial project (1926) in Como, the Novocomum block of flats (1927–8), Como, and five blocks in Milan. Of the latter the Rustici House (1935), Corso Sempione 36, is the most important, expressing a radical attempt to revise the conventional formulae for rented housing through innovations in volume and distribution of space. In collaboration with Terragni and with others, including the painter Mario Sironi, Lingeri also worked on unexecuted projects commissioned by the Fascist government, such as the Palazzo del Littorio (1937), in the Fori Imperiali, Rome, the reception building (1937) intended for the Esposizione Universale di Roma (1942; cancelled) and the Danteum (1938), Rome. After World War II he designed a tall housing block (1951) in the QT8 quarter of Milan and was head of a group responsible for planning the working-class housing developments of Vialba (1958), Milan, and Sagnino (1959), Como.
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