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“Giving Warmth to the Building Skin— The World of Gio Ponti, Father of Modern Italian Design”
LIXIL Gallery 1 & 2
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Gio Ponti
This exhibition focuses on Ponti’s work as an architect, introducing the many special visual effects of his buildings. Since the advent of modernism at the start of the 20th century, architecture has tended to depart from human warmth, enjoyment, handicraft, and decoration in its exteriors. Even as a modernist, however, Ponti sought out these attributes, adding handicraft to industrial products, which gave his work a “sense of skin” through texture and warmth. Particularly from the 1950s onward, he pursed a “lightness” and “thinness” in the heavy disciple of architecture. Consequentially, the “skins” or exteriors of the buildings he designed often feature ceramic tiles as his chosen material. This approach can be interpreted in multifaceted ways as an aphorism or an original graphic for his architectural philosophy.
Schedule | Sep 4 (Thu) 2014-Nov 22 (Sat) 2014 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | LIXIL Gallery 1 & 2 https://www.livingculture.lixil/en/gallery/  | ||||
| Location | 2F LIXIL:Ginza Tokyo Tatemono Kyobashi Bldg., 3-6-18 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031 | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from exit 2 at Kyobashi Station on the Ginza line, 3 minute walk from exit 6 at Ginza-itchome Station on the Yurakucho line, 3 minute walk from exit A4 at Takaracho Station on the Toei Asakusa line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5250-6530 | ||||
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