Main entry:

Mäkelä, Taisto H., author.

Title & Author:

Gio Ponti in the American West / Taisto H. Mäkelä ; with contributions by, Darrin Alfred, Christoph Heinrich, Salvatore Licitra, Jorge Silvetti.

Publication:

New York, NY : Rizzoli Electa ; Denver, CO : in association with Denver Art Museum, 2020.
©2020

Description:

159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 31 cm

Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the reopening of the Denver Art Museum Lanny and Sharon Martin Building and the exhibition 'Gio Ponti : designer of a thousand talents' organized by Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado ... June 6, 2020-December 2021"--Colophon.
Includes quotations by Ponti and others.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Salvatore Licitra -- The evolution of an architectural icon / Christoph Heinrich -- A modern museum for a modern city / Taisto H. Mäkelä -- Gio Ponti's six principles of design / Taisto H. Mäkelä -- Designer of a thousand talents / Darrin Alfred -- An architect's reflection on expanding the Denver Art Museum / Jorge Silvetti -- Denver Art Museum: an architectural timeline -- Notes -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- Image credits.

Summary:

"Opened in 1971, Denver Art Museum's north building, a seven-story structure--with its distinctive cut-out roofline, narrow windows, and an exterior covered with more than a million custom-made glass tiles--was one of the first high-rise art museums. In 2020, after a two-year closure for renovations, the museum is reopening the Ponti building, which will include new architecture and design galleries featuring an exhibition of Ponti-designed objects from the Denver Art Museum and local collections. The book will include both recent and historic photography, including many architectural details, and tell the story of how Gio Ponti, at the end of his long and remarkable career, created an architectural icon in the American West. Dr. Mäkelä, former chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Colorado Denver, will contribute an in-depth illustrated history of the building. Darrin Alfred, DAM Curator of Architecture and Design, will write about Ponti's design work using objects from the DAM collection as examples. Architect Jorge Silvetti will write about his admiration for Ponti's masterpiece from his perspective as one of the architects in charge of the renovations."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780847868964 (hardcover)
0847868966 (hardcover)

Subject:

Ponti, Gio, 1891-1979 Exhibitions.
Ponti, Gio,
Ponti, Gio, 1891-1979
Denver Art Museum History.
Denver Art Museum.
Design Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Design History Exhibitions. 20th century.
Architecture, Modern Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern
Design

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Pictorial works
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Ponti, Gio, 1891-1979, architect.
Alfred, Darrin, contributor.
Heinrich, Christoph, contributor.
Licitra, Salvatore, contributor.
Silvetti, Jorge, contributor.
Denver Art Museum, host institution, organizer.
Gio Ponti, designer of a thousand talents.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308470
Call No.: BIB 253843
Status: Available