NATURE: Gio Ponti

NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE
GIO PONTI
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PEPA ABAD, JAVIER LEZA, MARÍA CERDÁ & CARLOS MECA
INDEX
1. NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE
2. GIO PONTI'S WORK
VILLA BOUILHE
L’ANGE VOLANT VILLA
CASA RIVIERA
VILLA PLANCHART
ETYMOLOGY
The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura and in ancient times,
literally meant "birth".
In ancient philosophy, natura is mostly used as the Latin translation of the

Greek word physis (φύσις), which is originally related to the intrinsic
characteristics of plants, animals, and other features of the world to develop
of their own accord

ANCIENT AGE
Greeks and Romans
The relationship between humans and nature in the ancient world was very
different from today.
People was closely linked to the natural world, culture was based on agriculture.
Roman residential villas (Plinio il giovane)

MEDIEVAL AGE
City-Countryside contrast
Humans took refuge behind city walls and viewed nature from a distance
Contemplating nature as something distant and intriguing
The idea of landscape was born (Francesco Petrarca)

ARCHITECTURE IN NATURE
Andrea Palladio
Relationship between architecture and nature is codified for the first time
Reaedificatoria di Andrea Palladio
Nature is understood as an object of contemplation

NATURE'S ARCHITECTURE
Picturesque Gardens
Construction of gardens became very important.
With the arrival of picturesque gardens, nature began to be designed.
Transition from architecture in nature to architecture of nature.

Picturesque Gardens

LANDSCAPE ART
Landscape Art in the 20th century with Robert Smithson.
From landscape in art (landscape painting) to landscape art
Nature is the canvas on which art is created

LANDSCAPE ART

GIO PONTI
Biography
● Studied Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan.

● Architect, designer, editor, author, and painter.
● Artistic director of the Richard Ginori porcelain factory.
● Advocate of Italian style and "Made in Italy" design.
● In 1925 he opened his Studio with Emilio Lancia.
● Focus on creating comfortable and joyful homes that reflect
the occupants' lifestyle.
● Emphasis on beauty and functionality.
● Founder and director of Domus magazine.
"I am an artist who fell in love with architecture"

Villa Bouilhe
● 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and
Industrial Arts.
● Ponti and Richard Ginori.
● Tony Bouilhe friendship.
● Bouilhe’s country house in Paris.

Villa Bouilhe

Villa Bouilhe

L’Ange Volant Villa
● First opportunity.
● Revisiting Italian Style.
● Design and Features of Villa Bouilhet.
● Collaborations and Design Elements.
● Conclusion.







Gio Ponti and The Mediterranean

“Mediterranean taught Rudofsky,
Rudofsky taught me”
● Gio Ponti and Bernard Rudofsky
● Domus magazine
● Mediterranean houses
● Ancient Romans and Tradicional lifestyle

Casa en Riviera
“For a long time we have lost

contact with the ground”
● the contact with the landscape, The looks
● Nature outwards and inwards
● The texture: paviments, colors
● Nature above all

Casa en Riviera
An architecture as “mirror of society,”

claiming that what was needed was not “a
new way of building, but a new way of
living”

New ways of drawing
House Riviera, 1939
Casa en Riviera

Casa en Riviera
la Mediterraneità.
All its architecture would revolve, since then, around a
very simple formal repertoire, with few native elements
and materials, and in which the vernacular would affect
the symbolism of its content more than its construction
system (Sustersic, 2004).

Villa Planchart
Caracas, Venezuela
1953 - 1957
Villa Planchart
The Client
``We are a simple, childless and practical

married couple, our friendships are not formal,
but we like to meet them frequently´´
`Òur hobbies are plants, dogs, birds,

fish (we've always had small aquariums),
photography, etc.´´
Armando and Anala Planchart

Villa Planchart
Constrains
`` A house with no walls to see the mountains ´´
Anala Planchart
`Ì have a collection of orchids that I want all inside

my new house ´´
Armando Planchart
"It will be like a big butterfly suspended on a hillside"
Gio Ponti

Villa Planchart
Reinterpreting history
House of Pansa, Pompeii Villa Planchart, Caracas

Villa Planchart
``The other is that, having worked only in

sincerity without any 'Italian' budget, that is,
without wanting to make, in Cocteau's words,
an (Italian) architecture d'après l'architecture
(Italian), the surprising (and very dear to me)
episode of being told that it was a "Florentine
villa" came true. This judgement, formulated
with spontaneous sincerity by the local
people, without claiming to express an
"architectural" judgement, is proof of one
thing, namely the fact that even by making an
architecture that is unscrupulously coherent
with its own time, one is (or remains)
unknowingly but happily of one's own
country´´

Bibliography
Our story. L’Ange Volant. (n.d.). http://angevolant.com/language/en/our-story/

Gruppo 36 Sartoria Digitale dal 1999. (n.d.). Biography - Giò Ponti.
https://www.gioponti.org/en/biography
YouTube. (2021). YouTube. Retrieved May 28, 2023, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM8TnDG0-AU
Casa Ponti in Via Randaccio. Itinerari di architettura | Ordine Architetti Milano. (n.d.).
https://ordinearchitetti.mi.it/it/cultura/itinerari-di-architettura/46-gio-ponti/opere/34
2-casa-ponti-in-via-randaccio
Falconi, L. (2004). Gio Ponti: Interni Oggetti disegni 1920-1976. Electa.
Gio Ponti and Bernard Rudofsky: the mediterranean house and its
representation in the journal domus
https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/EGA/article/download/4059/4376/14142

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NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE

2. GIO PONTI'S WORK

L’ANGE VOLANT VILLA

In ancient philosophy, natura is mostly used as the Latin translation of the

NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE

Roman residential villas (Plinio il giovane)

NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE

Contemplating nature as something distant and intriguing

The idea of landscape was born (Francesco Petrarca)

NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE

Reaediﬁcatoria di Andrea Palladio

Nature is understood as an object of contemplation

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Construction of gardens became very important.

With the arrival of picturesque gardens, nature began to be designed.

Transition from architecture in nature to architecture of nature.

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From landscape in art (landscape painting) to landscape art

Nature is the canvas on which art is created

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● Studied Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan.

"I am an artist who fell in love with architecture"

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● Gio Ponti and Bernard Rudofsky

● Ancient Romans and Tradicional lifestyle

“For a long time we have lost

● the contact with the landscape, The looks

● Nature outwards and inwards

● The texture: paviments, colors

● Nature above all

NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE

An architecture as “mirror of society,”

NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE

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``We are a simple, childless and practical

``Our hobbies are plants, dogs, birds,

Armando and Anala Planchart

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`` A house with no walls to see the mountains ´´

``I have a collection of orchids that I want all inside

"It will be like a big butterfly suspended on a hillside"

NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE

House of Pansa, Pompeii Villa Planchart, Caracas

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``The other is that, having worked only in

NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE