Ignazio Gardella was born in Milan in 1905 where he lived all his life and had his own office. He started working in 1929 at the office Gardella-Martini, continuing the work of his father. He received his first Civil Engineering PhD from the Polytechnic University of Milan and his PhD in Architecture from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura of Venice. From the early thirties he started expanding his travels abroad for both study and work, for example his stay in 1931 in Germany where he met a groupe of architects in Frankfurt, his trip with Arch. Pagano in 1939 to Finland, Sweden and Norway where he participated in numerous congresses and discussions regarding modern architecture, in 1950 he travelled to the USA for the E.C.A., in 1956 he accompanied students of the architecture school of Venice to Greece and participated in international meetings of Modern Architecture in Bergamo, Aix-en-Provence, La Sarraz after the war. He began teaching in 1940 at various universities and was eventually appointed professor of the “Elements of Composition” course in 1962 at the Istituto Universitario of Architettura of Venice.