![]() ![]() Putatively the tower height was limited by Mussolini so as not to exceed the height of the Madonnina statue atop the Duomo. The 108-meter-high (354 ft) Littoria Tower (or Lictor's Tower, but now Branca Tower), was meant to resemble the bundles that formed the fasces. Adjacent to the palace, a steel tower-spire was commissioned from Gio Ponti. įor the 1933 Fifth Triennial of Decorative Arts in Milan, Giovanni Muzio designed the Palazzo dell'Arte in Parco Sempione, a museum and theater to host the displays. He then joined forces with engineers Antonio Fornaroli and Eugenio Soncini to form Studio Ponti-Fornaroli-Soncini which lasted until 1945. The construction of the Rasini building (1933–1936) with its flat roofs marked the end of his partnership with Emilio Lancia around 1933. Spacious, equipped and built with modern materials, they met the requirements of the new Milanese bourgeoisie. The ten "case tipiche" (typical houses), built in Milan between 19, were also close to Rationalist Modernism while retaining features of Mediterranean houses like balconies, terraces, loggias and pergolas. By removing all ornament, Ponti moved towards formal simplification where he sought to make style and structure coincide. With the construction of the Borletti funeral chapel in 1931, he started to adopt a modernist shift. He was involved in many projects, particularly in his native city of Milan. The 1930s were years of intense activity for Ponti. Other outputs of the time include the 1928 Monument to the Fallen with the Novecento architects Giovanni Muzio, Tomaso Buzzi, Ottavio Cabiati, Emilio Lancia and Alberto Alpago Novello As he built his first building in Milan, via Randaccio (1925–1926), the Ange Volant was an opportunity for Ponti to experiment with his personal conception of the Italian-style house, the principles of which he gathered in his book La Casa all'Italiana published in 1933. The family Bouilhet who entrusted him with his first architectural commission abroad, with the construction of the Ange Volant (1926–1928, in collaboration with Emilio Lancia and Tomaso Buzzi), a country house located on the edge of the Saint-Cloud golf course, on the outskirts of Paris. On this occasion, he made friends with Tony Bouilhet, director of the silversmith company Christofle. In 1925, Ponti participated in the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris, with the porcelain manufacturer. In these years he was influenced by and associated with the Milanese neoclassical Novecento Italiano movement. ![]() Ponti began his architectural career in partnership with Mino Fiocchi and Emilio Lancia from 1923 through 1927, and then through 1933 with Lancia only, as Studio Ponti e Lancia PL. Architecture and interior design The Denver Art Museum, 1971 The same year, he married Giulia Vimercati, with whom he had four children, Lisa, Giovanna, Letizia, and Giulio, and eight grandchildren. Ponti graduated with a degree in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano University in 1921. He served as a Capitan in the Pontonier Corps (Corps of Engineers) from 1916 to 1918 and was awarded both the Bronze Medal of Military Valor and the Italian Military Cross. ![]() ![]() His studies were interrupted by his military service during World War I. Ponti was born in Milan in 1891 to Enrico Ponti and Giovanna (Rigone). His most famous works are the Pirelli Tower, built from 1956 to 1960 in Milan in collaboration with the engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, the Villa Planchart in Caracas and the Superleggera chair, produced by Cassina in 1957. Ponti also contributed to the creation in 1954 of one of the most important design awards: the Compasso d'Oro prize. From 1936 to 1961, he taught at the Milan Polytechnic School and trained several generations of designers. Thanks to the magazine Domus, which he founded in 1928 and directed almost all his life, and thanks to his active participation in exhibitions such as the Milan Triennial, he was also an enthusiastic advocate of an Italian-style art of living and a major player in the renewal of Italian design after the Second World War. He designed a considerable number of decorative art and design objects as well as furniture. ĭuring his career, which spanned six decades, Ponti built more than a hundred buildings in Italy and in the rest of the world. Giovanni "Gio" Ponti ( 18 November 1891 – 16 September 1979) was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher. Pirelli Tower, Milan Concattedrale Gran Madre di Dio, Taranto Villa Planchard, Caracas Denver Art Museum (with James Sudler Assoc.) Palazzo Montecatini, Milan. ![]()
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