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    Gio Ponti was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, and publisher. He graduated with a degree in architecture in 1921 from Politecnico di Milano University. Throughout his career, Ponti designed many commercial and university buildings in Italy including offices for Fiat and the School of Mathematics for La Sapienza university in Rome. In 1952, he went into partnership with other architects and continued designing internationally renowned projects such as the Pirelli Tower in Milan and the Denver Art Museum. Ponti viewed architecture holistically and sought to design interiors, furniture, and other decorative elements alongside the buildings themselves.

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    Gio Ponti was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, and publisher. He graduated with a degree in architecture in 1921 from Politecnico di Milano University. Throughout his career, Ponti designed many commercial and university buildings in Italy including offices for Fiat and the School of Mathematics for La Sapienza university in Rome. In 1952, he went into partnership with other architects and continued designing internationally renowned projects such as the Pirelli Tower in Milan and the Denver Art Museum. Ponti viewed architecture holistically and sought to design interiors, furniture, and other decorative elements alongside the buildings themselves.

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    Gio Ponti was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, and publisher. He graduated with a degree in architecture in 1921 from Politecnico di Milano University. Throughout his career, Ponti designed many commercial and university buildings in Italy including offices for Fiat and the School of Mathematics for La Sapienza university in Rome. In 1952, he went into partnership with other architects and continued designing internationally renowned projects such as the Pirelli Tower in Milan and the Denver Art Museum. Ponti viewed architecture holistically and sought to design interiors, furniture, and other decorative elements alongside the buildings themselves.

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    GIO PONTI

     Giovanni "Gio" Ponti (18 November 1891 – 16


    September 1979) was an Italian architect,
    industrial designer, furniture designer, artist,
    and publisher.
     He did military service during world war I in
    the Pontonier Corps with the rank of
    captain, from 1916 to 1918.
     Ponti graduated with a degree in
    Architecture in 1921 from the Politecnico di
    Milano University.
    first project was the 1936 company

    headquarters for the Italian chemical firm


    Montecatini, followed by a number of other
    industrial and university commissions
    through the war years. School of Mathematics for La
    Sapienza
    Which includes :

     offices for Fiat

    the School of Mathematics for La

    Sapienza,university of ROME 1935.


     in 1950 won the commission to design the
    House on Via Randaccio in Bouilhet villa in Garches,
    32-story Pirelli Tower in collaboration with Milan,1925 Paris,1926.
    Pier Luigi Nervi and Arturo Danusso
    In 1952 he went into partnership with the architect Alberto Rosselli (Studio
    Ponti-Fornaroli-Rosselli, (1952–1976)
    After the death of Rosselli he continued to work with his longtime partner

    Antonio Fornaroli .
     From 1953 to 1957, he built the Hotel della Città et de la Ville and the Centro

    Studi Fondazione Livio e Maria Garzant .


    As the Pirelli Tower attracted more attention, international commissions came

    into Ponti's office for Caracas, Venezuela, ( Villa Planchart), Baghdad, Hong
    Kong, Eindhoven and the 1971 Denver Art Museum, and finally a series of
    Milanese churches.
    Between 1960 and 1962 Ponti designed and realize the first Italian Hotel Pirelli Tower
    Design: the Parco dei Principi (Sorrento).

    Hotel della Città et de la Ville


    From 1953
     “Art is a treasure, and these thin but jealous walls defend it”.
     He was not a member of any mordernist ideological movements.
     Architecture as a place where multiple aspects of creative act come
    together and “style’’ as a recurrent recognisable element present in
    the community of a given society at a given time.
     Ponti never viewed architecture as simply creating buildings
    Instead, he often conceived of the building’s interior as well,
    creating furniture(chairs and coffee table) , lighting appliances, and
    even items like ceramics, glasswares etc.
     He never limit to
     He was a great experimenter with new materials.

    PHILOSOPH
     He sought a meeting point between expressiveness and
    uniformity ,creating his many domuses on via Letizia and typical
    homes in via de tognuu and via del varavaggio.
     Discovered and edited architectural magazine
    domus and stile.
     In 1957, he designed the super-celebrated
    Superleggera chair for Cassina.
     Worked as the Faculty of Architecture in Milan
    from 1936 to 1961.
    AWARDS
     In 1934 he was given the title of "Commander" of the
    Royal Order of Vasa in Stockholm. He also obtained
    the Accademia d'Italia Art Prize for his artistic
    merits, as well as a gold medal from the Paris
    Académie d'Architecture.

    OTHER WORKS
     Finally, he obtained an honorary Doctorate from the
    London Royal College of Art.

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