GIO PONTI – IN PRAISE OF ARCHITECTURE

First edition, published by F. W. Dodge Corporation, 1960.

'This book could also have been called: Peroration on Architecture, Ideas on Architecture, Architecture is a Crystal, Love Architecture, Love Architects' - Ponti.

Part autobiography and partly a series of essays on architecture by Gio Ponti, an architect, artist and writer. Looking at the politics of architecture, architecture in relation to art, the past, present and future and many other subjects. A beautiful and enlightening book.

Condition: Very good +, some shelf wear to dust jacket. Book is in fine condition.