Muzio v Ponti

Muzio v Ponti May 6th, 2008 Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Giovanni Muzio’s Ca Brutta (1923) faces Gio Ponti’s Palazzo Montecatini (1936) across the junction of Via Fillipo Turati and Via Moscova in Milan. The buildings were completed within fifteen years of each other and display different approaches to to a similar problem: how do you make a facade which forms a thin sheath on a modern structural frame? Muzio in the Ca Brutta (’Ugly House’) chooses to ignore the structural concrete

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