Sunday Ponti Church

It was summer of 1979, we were driving in my dad's khaki green Mercedes in southern Italy to catch the boat back to Greece after a trans-europe not so express, the car stereo was probably playing "I will Survive" or "No More Tears" and we thought everybody was a mafioso.

Suddenly I saw this building off the autostrada, and it was just the most exciting thing I had seen. My parents said : "It looks like a church", and I thought "It looks fabulous".Later in life I realized that this was Gio Ponti's Cathedral in Taranto, and today browsing through some books I found it again.

Next to it in the book (a vintage A+U) was another great church by Ponti, slightly less published, the San Franscesco in Milan.

I've always been obsessed by Ponti's polygon window phase, like in the De Bijenkorf which I blogged ages ago

some of the pics from this Ponti link