意大利建筑师和设计师吉奥庞帝（1891-1979）很难确定。他的作品产量惊人，风格多样，是设计史上最具多样性和开创性的作品之一。庞帝最初在建筑学上接受了培训，很快进入了工业和室内设计领域，在陶瓷、银器和玻璃上进行实验。庞帝的主要作品在这一广泛的概述中广泛传播，包括各种各样的建筑，从小型住宅住宅到高层建筑、学校和办公大楼。

家庭是庞蒂的一个反复出现的利益和创新的中心领域。他在设计上的天赋——仔细考虑内部和外部空间——在这一版的华丽的复制品、平面图和绘画中被描绘出来。他丰富多彩的、无忧无虑的、优雅的空间融合了富有表现力的新古典主义和新兴的现代主义情感。

domus杂志的创始人和几乎终生的编辑从未停止开发和改造他的风格。从丹佛艺术博物馆到他收藏的教堂，从定制的家居用品到现代米兰的象征，皮埃利大厦，这幅作品介绍了庞蒂的旺盛创造力和杰出的职业生涯。

Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and eclectic style, his oeuvre remains one of the most diverse and groundbreaking in design history. Trained initially in architecture, Ponti soon moved into industrial and interior design, experimenting with ceramics, silverware, and glass. Ponti's key works are spread throughout this extensive overview, including structures of all kinds, from small residential dwellings to high-rise buildings, schools, and office blocks.

The home was one of Ponti's recurring interests and central areas of innovation. His talent for total design--a careful consideration of both interior and exterior space--is charted in the glossy reproductions, floor plans, and drawings featured in this edition. Ponti's colorful, carefree, and elegant spaces blended an expressive neoclassicism with emerging modernist sensibility.

The founder and nearly lifelong editor of domus magazine never ceased to develop and reinvent his style. From the Denver Art Museum to his collection of churches, from bespoke homeware to the symbol of modern Milan, the Pirelli Tower, this monograph provides an introduction to Ponti's exuberant creativity and illustrious career.

"Pure architecture is a crystal. When it is pure, it is clear like a crystal--magic, closed, exclusive, autonomous, unsullied, absolute, conclusive like a crystal. Architecture refuses unfinished shapes... Architecture begins and ends. Architecture stands."
-- Gio Ponti