Luigi Canonica

( Cristoforo Maria) Luigi Canonica ( born March 9, 1764 in Tesserete, Ticino, † February 7, 1844 in Milan ) was a Swiss architect and city planner of Classicism in Italy.

The son of Pietro Canonica Ticino doctor was a pupil of Giuseppe Piermarini at the Accademia di Brera, where he was self- employed as a teacher since 1786. In the first and second Cisalpine Republic he was in 1797 or 1802 State builder. In this capacity, he designed the Foro only partially executed Bonaparte next to Milan's Castle (1803 ), led the coronation of Bonaparte to the Italian king (1805 ) inaugurated in 1807 and built the Arena Civica, one of the largest construction projects of Napoleon. As architetto real, a title which was awarded to him in 1805, he was responsible for urban development in Milan. After the end of the Napoleonic period, in 1814, he held no public functions, he built after for church and private builders. In addition, numerous theater construction projects are attributed to them, as in Milan, Brescia ( 1811), Mantua ( 1818-1822 ), Sondrio (1824 ) and Genoa. At the end of his career, he created residences for the Milanese nobility, city residences in Milan and Villas in Brianza.