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Gio Ponti (Hardcover)
Salvatore Licitra, Stefano Casciani, Lisa Licitra Ponti, Brian Kish, Fabio Marino; Edited by …
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Also available as Art Edition (No. 1-1,000) including an exclusive,
square format reproduction of the Arlecchino coffee table and a set
of four numbered ocean liner interior prints. To study Gio Ponti's
prolific body of work is to appreciate the clear, unifying vision
behind a complex creative universe. A synthesis of the arts, his
creations expand intuitively with the Italian grandeur and studied
lightness that defined his iconic style. Ponti's rare capacity to
move seamlessly between scales allowed him to approach the design
of a teaspoon with the same conviction as he did an entire city. He
was as much an architect and designer as he was a publisher, poet,
and man. A treasure in its own regard, his contribution is also a
distinctive landmark of Italy's mid-century Renaissance and the
modernist values it sought to realize. This new book is the most
comprehensive account of Ponti's work to date, unprecedented in
scale and scope. It tracks the development of his oeuvre over 6
decades, with 136 projects indexed and reproduced in high
resolution, each object framed by the context in which Ponti had
created it. Like windows onto his elusive life, unpublished
materials and candid imagery create new dialogues between his
famous masterpieces and his lesser-known feats. A rich layer of
texts, featuring an extensive biographical essay by Stefano
Casciani, was produced in close collaboration with the Gio Ponti
Archives offering an intimate insight on his life's work.
Materializing Ponti's core philosophy of modernity, this book
presents architecture as a performing object, a "self-illuminating"
stage for his humanistic art de vivre and boundless creativity.
Labics, based in Rome, is a leader among Italy's up-and-coming
architecture firms and has gained great international acclaim for
submissions to competitions and a number of realised projects. This
first-ever monograph on Labic's fast growing, impressive body of
work features some twenty of their designs, representing the entire
range of the firm's achievements. The selection comprises housing
and office buildings, museums and cultural centres, schools, public
spaces, and subway stations, located in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Finland, Iran, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and the UK. All
are documented with atmospheric photographs and a wealth of plans
and diagrams to illustrate the concept and many details of each
project. Structure, in a variety of notions of the term, is guiding
Labic's approach. Consequently, the book is arranged in five
chapters exploring geometric, bearing, circulation, public space,
and urban and territorial structures in topical essays. This
provides the frame for the featured projects, all of which
exemplify the importance of the respective type of structure for
Labic's work.
An exquisitely crafted, large format volume featuring new and
previously unpublished artwork by legendary architect Thom Mayne,
principal of Morphosis Architects. Strange Networks debuts a new
body of artwork and studies by Pritzker Prize-winning architect
Thom Mayne. Emerging from the same interests that shape the design
philosophy of his internationally renowned architecture firm
Morphosis, the works explore the tension between organizational
systems and chance behavior, between the manual and digital, and
between individual and collective authorship. Reproduced in
exquisite detail, the intricate lithographic prints and digitally
derived sculptural works--or "drawdels" for how they combine the
notion of drawing and modelling--embody a search for forms and
methods resonant with our contemporary state of instability and
hyper-connection. With a foreword by Thom Mayne and essays by
Stefano Casciani, Sir Peter Cook, Craig Hodgetts, and Frederic
Migayrou.
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