Villa Planchart

Giò Ponti – Caracas (El Cerrito), Venezuela, 1953-1957

“This construction, like my other one in Caracas, the villa of Bianca Arreaza, is a play of spaces, surfaces and volumes that offer themselves with different aspects to those who enter it: it is a 'machina', or if you like an abstract sculpture on an enormous scale, not to be looked at from the outside, but to be looked at from the inside, penetrating and walking through it: made to be observed by continually turning the eye. But this construction is not made only for the eye; it is also made for the life of those who live in it; it has supported with careful understanding what was requested, and has finally received what is the truest praise for the architect: the affirmation that what was desired, what was asked for the life of those who live in it, has been achieved”. 
Gio Ponti
Source: www.domusweb.it
Originally published in Domus 375/February 1961