Ville esclusive: architetture di Gianni Gamondi-Exclusive villas & resorts: architecture of Gianni Gamondi

GIANNI GAMONDI was born in Alessandria in 1937 and graduated in architecture from Milan Polytechnic in 1966. Immediately starting work on the Costa Smeralda, he specialised in the tourism sector and has built villas, villages, hotels, resorts and golf all over the world. His more important projects include the comp l exes of Porto Rotondo, Rosarda and Puntaldia in Sardinia, the Krizia Club in Barbuda, the design for the Emerald Cove Resort in Antigua and some 250 private homes for celebrities in the Italian and intern ational jet set.

GIANCARLO GARDIN is a photograp h e r. Born in Treviso in 1954, he embarked on his profession in 1975, focusing on sports, advertising, fashion and furniture. Since 1980, he has been specialising in photographing architecture, interior design and gardens, producing exclusive photographic reportages for publication in the world's leading international specialised magazines, books and brochures. In 1999, he established the publisher Archideos Libri, with which he has already published the volumes Case di Sardegna (Houses in Sardinia - 1999) and Case di Engadina (Houses in Engadin - 2002).
This book is a collection of fifty photo shoots in the private villas and residential and hotel complexes designed and built by the Milanese architect Gianni Gamondi on the Costa Smeralda and the Côte d'Azur, in the Caribbean, in Ireland and in Lombardy, from the seventies to 2003. The first in a series of monographs devoted to Contemporar y Architects published by Archideos Libri, this volume illustrates the accomplishments of an extraordinary case of work in progress of iconographic documentation conducted by the photographer Giancarlo Gardin in the course of two decades spent attentively monitoring every facet of Gamondi's creativity: a true chronicle and biography in images, captured in real time and dedicated to the - to a great extent still unpublished - personality of an one of Italy's most highly esteemed and sought aft e r architects, at international level, in the area of leisure and élite tourist architecture.