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Palace of Prince Said Halim Pasha, 1896–1899, CairoKhedive's Palace, 1907, IstanbulHeadquarters of Banque Misr, Cairo, 1927
Lasciac was born to Peter Laščak and Jožefa (née Trampuš) in the Italian Gorizia suburb of San Rocco (Slovene: Podturn) in 1856. At the time this was part of the Austrian Empire, today it is in Italy. He was the first of ten children. Three of his siblings died in childhood.[citation needed] He migrated to Gorizia and opened a business with Mihael Trampuš, another Slovene. He fell in love with Trampuš's daughter and took over his crafts workshop after the marriage. Her official Italian name is written as Gioseffa. Her father Mihael was born in Gorizia, to farmers from the surrounding Karst Plateau.[citation needed]
After finishing primary and secondary school in Gorizia, Lasciac studied at the Vienna Polytechnic Institute.[4]
While still a student,[4] Lasciac married Maria Plesnizer (also Marija Alojzija Plesničar[5]) from a Slovene family. Maria bore three children[6] with unusual and fully Italian names: Plautilla Angelina Francesca, Fabrizio Antonio Giuseppe and Romeo Italico Alessandro (died 1926[7]).[5]
He first traveled to Egypt to assist in rebuilding Alexandria after the destruction by the British Bombardment of Alexandria in July 1882.[8]
Under the Khedive Abbas II of Egypt, he got a job and title as an Egyptian court architect in 1907.[8] Later he lost this job.[9] During World War I, as national of Austria-Hungary and thus of the enemy he had to leave Egypt.[9] After the war, he returned to Egypt and used to spend the summers in Gorizia and the winters in Egypt.[9] After moving to Cairo on 5 October 1946 he died there on 26 December 1946. He was buried at the Latin Cemetery in Cairo.[10]
Lasciac designed buildings in Gorizia and many Eastern capitals and cities, especially Egypt.[3] The Khedive's Palace in Istanbul and the Tahra Palace in Cairo (1907) are among his most notable works.
Of his drawings about a hundred have survived. As of 2015, they were in the private archive of Mercedes Volait in Paris.[11]
Khalil, Mohamed Ali Mohamed. The Italian Architecture in Alexandria Egypt (Thesis submitted to University Kore of Enna to obtain Second level master's degree in architecture restoration A.A. 2008–2009)
Kuzmin, Diego (2020). "Biographical notes of Antonio Lasciac". Antonio Lasciac. Un architetto tra Italia, Egitto e Slovenia. Storia, Disegno, Tecnica. Atti della Conferenza Internazionale Gorizia 10–11 dicembre 2014 (in Italian and English): 113–117. WikidataQ110496907.
