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Gio Ponti

1891 - 1979

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Giovanni "Gio" Ponti (Italian pronunciation: [ˌdʒo pˈponti]; 18 November 1891 – 16 September 1979) was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher. During his career, which spanned six decades, Ponti built more than a hundred buildings in Italy and in the rest of the world. He designed a considerable number of decorative art and design objects as well as furniture. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gio Ponti is the 257th most popular architect (down from 178th in 2019), the 2,465th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,919th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Italian Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Gio Ponti ranks 257 out of 518. Before him are Kevin A. Lynch, Glenn Murcutt, Hermann Muthesius, François de Cuvilliés, José Benito de Churriguera, and Elissa Aalto. After him are Luciano Laurana, Yan Liben, Adolphe Appia, Gae Aulenti, Bogdan Bogdanović, and Édouard André.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Gio Ponti ranks 114. Before him are Evgeny Pashukanis, Werner Lorenz, Pietro Nenni, Hans Albers, Laura Vicuña, and Julius Leber. After him are George Adamski, Alfred Wünnenberg, Vladimir Albitsky, Kenneth Anderson, Pavlo Tychyna, and Greta Schröder. Among people deceased in 1979, Gio Ponti ranks 96. Before him are Dolores Costello, Teruo Nakamura, Katharine Burr Blodgett, Morteza Motahhari, Léonide Massine, and José Della Torre. After him are Vagif Mustafazadeh, Ethel Smith, Zhang Guotao, Preguinho, Ján Kadár, and José María Velasco Ibarra.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gio Ponti ranks 2,465 out of 5,161. Before him are Gregorio Barbarigo (1625), Joseph the Hymnographer (816), Jarno Trulli (1974), Ottavio Rinuccini (1562), Giulio Angioni (1939), and Pietro Aldobrandini (1571). After him are Carlo Matteucci (1811), Pietro Anastasi (1948), Domenico Calcagno (1943), Ottavia Piccolo (1949), Publius Rutilius Rufus (-158), and Francesco Montenegro (1946).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Italy

Among architects born in Italy, Gio Ponti ranks 40. Before him are Vittorio Gregotti (1927), Carl Ritter von Ghega (1802), Giuseppe Terragni (1904), Pirro Ligorio (1513), Giacomo Quarenghi (1744), and Giovanni Giocondo (1433). After him are Gae Aulenti (1927), Bernardo Buontalenti (1531), Mauro Codussi (1440), Giovanni da Udine (1487), Carlo Rossi (1775), and Galeazzo Alessi (1512).

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