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Gio Ponti

1891 - 1979

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Giovanni "Gio" Ponti ([d͡ʒo] 18 November 1891 – 16 September 1979) was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher.During his career, which spanned six decades, Ponti built more than a hundred buildings in Italy and in the rest of the world. He designed a considerable number of decorative art and design objects as well as furniture. Thanks to the magazine Domus, which he founded in 1928 and directed almost all his life, and thanks to his active participation in exhibitions such as the Milan Triennial, he was also an enthusiastic advocate of an Italian-style art of living and a major player in the renewal of Italian design after the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gio Ponti has received more than 241,029 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Gio Ponti is the 178th most popular architect (down from 167th in 2019), the 1,919th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,756th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Italian Architect.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Gio Pontis by language

Over the past year Gio Ponti has had the most page views in the with 58,339 views, followed by English (29,358), and French (6,656). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (152.13%), Latin (73.41%), and Piedmontese (53.43%)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Gio Ponti ranks 178 out of 518. Before him are William Le Baron Jenney, Joseph Paxton, Hassan Fathy, Charles Eames, Jan Gehl, and Aristobulus of Cassandreia. After him are Eduardo Souto de Moura, Eero Aarnio, François Blondel, John Nash, Paul Troost, and Paul Andreu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Gio Ponti ranks 64. Before him are Hans F. K. Günther, Johannes R. Becher, Oswald Boelcke, Lajos Zilahy, Lilya Brik, and Poul Nielsen. After him are Kurt von Tippelskirch, Dimitrije Ljotić, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Bruno Loerzer, Jose P. Laurel, and Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma. Among people deceased in 1979, Gio Ponti ranks 72. Before him are Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Aleksei N. Leontiev, Yuen Siu-tien, Friedrich Ebert Jr., Jean-Marie Villot, and Stein Rokkan. After him are Carlo Abarth, Yvonne de Gaulle, Victoria Ocampo, Jayaprakash Narayan, Darryl F. Zanuck, and Joseph Kessel.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gio Ponti ranks 1,919 out of 5,161. Before him are Nepotianus (400), Cesare Zavattini (1902), Raginpert (662), Adriano Galliani (1944), Guarino da Verona (1374), and Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria (1852). After him are Giorgio Chiellini (1984), Giambattista Benedetti (1530), Fabio Testi (1941), Albert Azzo II, Margrave of Milan (1009), Maddalena Casulana (1544), and Nanni di Banco (1380).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Italy

Among architects born in Italy, Gio Ponti ranks 29. Before him are Lina Bo Bardi (1914), Filippo Juvarra (1678), Antonio Sant'Elia (1888), Carlo Scarpa (1906), Pier Luigi Nervi (1891), and Carl Ritter von Ghega (1802). After him are Michele Sanmicheli (1484), Luigi Vanvitelli (1700), Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (1447), Giacomo Quarenghi (1744), Giuseppe Terragni (1904), and Carlo Rainaldi (1611).

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