About us

InAR - Ingegneria Architettura is a leading engineering and consulting firm in the field of healthcare and social care design boasting over 60 years of tradition and experience. Our projects and buildings demonstrate our well-established international presence with interventions in Italy, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.The high added value of our advanced healthcare projects has made us a leading partner in the field of public and private healthcare facilities.

Our history

Healthcare has been the focus of our activity for more than 60 years. Throughout these decades, we have honed our skills to design buildings which are able to face the continuous evolution resulting from demographic, epidemiological and technological changes, creating welcoming spaces for patients, families and healthcare personnel. We believe that a project, in addition to guaranteeing engineering efficiency and medical efficacy by devising physical and spatial solutions for the organisational programme specific to each therapeutic path, must take into account issues which were not considered in the past but are today of the greatest importance:

– the impact on and the relationship with the urban and territorial fabric;
– the comfort and quality of indoor spaces (“customised”, ergonomic rooms);
– the relationship with green spaces as key elements for the healing process (biophilic design);
– the attention paid to the characteristics of building envelope, construction technologies and systems in accordance with criteria of energy efficiency and sustainable development.

Our challenge is to play an active role in the important transformations taking place, to be able to grasp the change and know how to interpret it and, above all, to be able to translate it into tangible solutions.

Studio di Architettura e Urbanistica
Laura Lazzari - Giancarlo Perotta

Studio Professor Architetto
Epifanio Li Calzi

Archema engineering Srl

NEC spa
Niguarda Engineering Consulting

Sinesis Spa
Engineering & consulting

Sinergia Scarl
Società consortile di Ingegneria

InAR Srl
Ingegneria Architettura

1962 - 1992

1992 - 2003

2003 - 2005

2003 - 2012

2009 - 2012

From 2012

1962 - 1992

Studio di Architettura e Urbanistica
Laura Lazzari - Giancarlo Perotta

Studio Professor Architetto
Epifanio Li Calzi

1992 - 2003

Archema engineering Srl

2003 - 2005

NEC spa
Niguarda Engineering Consulting

2003 - 2012

Sinesis Spa
Engineering & consulting

2009 - 2012

Sinergia Scarl
Società consortile di Ingegneria

From 2012

InAR Srl
Ingegneria Architettura

«Tradition, experience, expertise and commitment, driven by an extraordinary passion, guide us in the conception and development of our projects, aware of the privilege of contributing to the health and well-being of Communities»

Architect Giovanni Li Calzi, General manager of InAR - Ingegneria e Architettura

Founders

Prof. Arch. Epifanio Li Calzi

Epifanio graduated in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano and embarked on his university career first as an assistant without tenure, then as a tenured assistant and finally, in 1980, as a professor of Architectural Composition. A pupil of E. N. Rogers, he edited editorials on architecture for Einaudi publisher and wrote for the most renowned architecture periodicals. He immediately applied himself to the study of hospital architecture, publishing articles and projects in specialised periodicals.
For years he applied himself to teaching and to the morphological and typological study for the design of new hospitals. His best-known published work is the volume on the history of hospitals "Per una Storia dell'Architettura Ospedaliera" published by Clup.
As part of the professional activity of Studio Li Calzi, he took part in countless design competitions and projects on a national and international scale: the Lecco hospital, Ospedale Destra Secchia, Ospedale Sacco, Ospedale Niguarda, the Cardiology Centre in Tripoli, the Bucharest Hospital complex, the redevelopment of Policlinico di Milano and Spedali Civili in Brescia.
In 2012, at the end of his university career, he founded InAR, a specialised architecture and engineering firm.

Arch. Laura Federica Lazzari

Laura graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. She joined the professional association of architects (Ordine degli Architetti) of Milan and became a member of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), a prestigious English institution which has been promoting the science and practice of construction for the benefit of society since 1834.
Laura was awarded two prestigious Architecture prizes, the 1969 InARCH National Prize for the “Municipio di Segrate” (Segrate Town Hall) Project and the 1969 InARCH Regional Prize for the “Università di Camerino” (Camerino University) Project. Laura was the first female architect in Italy to design high-rise buildings with the Project of the two “Torri di Porta Garibaldi” (Towers of Porta Garibaldi) in Milan.
Laura boasts a vast experience in the field of architectural design. Since 1964, she has worked on the development of projects for residential, monumental, tertiary, hotel and hospital buildings in Italy and around the world (Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania, Libya, Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria and Ghana) for institutions and project companies operating in field of public works as well as important private groups. Among these achievements is the Redevelopment Project for Ospedale Niguarda in Milan, which has deserved numerous mentions over the years.

Certifications

Thanks to the ISO 9001:2015 certification, we attain objectives of excellence in order to ensure full customer satisfaction through a reliable, effective organization. The ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 certifications aim to increase our performance in the areas of Health, Safety and Environment by generating a new model of sustainable competitiveness.

Projects

Clients

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Studio

We collaborate with doctors, administrators, specialists in different disciplines, researchers and patients to create state-of-the-art, flexible, sustainable and user-oriented healthcare facilities, with the awareness of operating in a technically and clinically complex environment. We collaborate with partner scientific institutions such as Ospedale Niguarda and Ospedale Sacco in Milan, carrying out research activities both in Italy and abroad on new functional and organisational models for healthcare structures, also in the field of infectious diseases.

Team