Exclusive Villas & Resorts: The Architecture of Gianni Gamondi

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a true chronicle and biography in images, captured in real time and dedicated to the - to a great extent still unpublished - personality of an one of Italy's most highly esteemed and sought aft e r architects, at international level, in the area of leisure and élite tourist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.