About

Graduated in Architecture from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – Brasil (1989), Mrs. Angelica Ponzio holds a Master of Science In Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University (1991) and a Doctor in Architecture degree at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – PROPAR – (2013) with a CAPES Brazilian research grant period at the Politecnico di Milano – Italy (July 2009 to January 2010).  Her Thesis was selected to run for the CAPES Thesis Awards and UFRGS Thesis award. She is also a Full time Associate Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Professor at the Graduate Program of Architecture PROPAR/UFRGS. Her experience in architectural studies includes process, methodology and teaching of architectural design, and history, theory and criticism of modern and contemporary architecture and interior design. She is currently conducting researches on modern and contemporary interiors, and on creative methods in the architectural design process  through the exploration, study and evaluation of Parametric and Algorithmic Design Thinking tools (Grasshopper/BIM), Artificial Inteligence (AI) and Digital Fabrication. She is also member of the Events Committee at the HIG/SAH, a Regional Manager (Portuguese language) at DigitalFUTURES and coordinator of the BIMCel/ANTAC at UFRGS, Brazil.

Education

Graduated in Architecture from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – Brasil (1989), Mrs. Angelica Ponzio holds a Master of Science In Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University (1991) and a Doctor in Architecture degree at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – PROPAR – (2013) with a CAPES Brazilian research grant period at the Politecnico di Milano – Italy (July 2009 to January 2010).

Publications

PONZIO, Angelica, PEIXOTO, Marta. 2021.
This is not a [bed]room, Interiors, 11:2-3, 253-281, DOI: 10.1080/20419112.2021.1962620


 

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PONZIO, Angelica Paiva; GOMEZ, H. 2020.

The Latin (American) Modernism of Gio Ponti´s Tropical
Villas. In Made in Italy and the Transatlantic Transfer: Architecture,
Design and Planning, 1955-1972
. Politecnico di Milano, Milan.

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. (2020, September 21).

The Denver Art Museum: Gio Ponti’s [American] “Dream
come True. Docomomo US.

Retrieved from https://docomomo-us.org/news/the-denver-art-museum-1966-72-gio-ponti-s-american-dream-come-true

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. (2020, December).

La Arquitectura.
La Fantasía Tropical de Gio Ponti. Villa Planchart. Retrived
from https://www.villaplanchart.net/la-casa/arquitectura/

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. (2019, November).

Gio Ponti’s Latin [American] Encounters: A Reading
from the Archives. Journal of Design History, V.32, Issue 4, 356
– 375. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epz011

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. (2019).

Casa
Taglianetti, San Paolo, 1953. In M. Casciato, F. Irace (Ed.). Gio Ponti
Amare L’Architettura
. (1ed., v.1, p.156-159). Firenze: Forma.

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. (2019).

Taglianetti
House São Paulo, 1953. In M. Casciato, F. Irace (Ed.). Gio Ponti Loving
Architecture.
(1 ed., v.1., p.156-159). Firenze: Forma.

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. (2019).

Exposição
Tutto Ponti. Gio Ponti Archi-Designer. Resenhas Online, São Paulo, ano
18, n. 208.02, Vitruvius, abr. 2019. Retrived from https://vitruvius.com.br/revistas/read/resenhasonline/18.208/7316.

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. (2018).

The [Latin] Modernism of Ponti, Costa and Barragán. In
Proceedings Regionalism, Nationalism & Modern Architecture Regionalism,
Nationalism & Modern Architecture
, Porto, 25 October 2018, pp. 330-341.

Retrieved from https://comum.rcaap.pt/handle/10400.26/24597

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. (2018).

Ponti au
Bresil. In S. Bouilhet-Dumas, S. Licitra, D. Forest (Ed.). Gio Ponti Archi
Designer
. (1 ed., v.1, pp. 160-163). Paris: MAD.

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. (2018).

Ponti in
Brasil. In S. Bouilhet-Dumas, S. Licitra, D. Forest (Ed.).  Gio Ponti Archi Designer. (1 ed., v.1,
pp. 160-163). Paris, Balsamo: MAD and Silvana Editoriale.

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. (2018).

Tutto Ponti:
Gio Ponti Archi-designer. In Portal Docomomo Brasil, 5 January 2018. Retrieved from http://docomomo.org.br/uncategorized/tutto-ponti-gio-ponti-archi-designer/

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva; PEIXOTO, M. S. (2016).

Vida Interior
In C. C. Cabral, C. E. Comas (org.), Anais do IV Encontro da Associação
Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo – ENANPARQ,

Porto Alegre, 25-29 July 2016. Retrieved
from http://www.anparq.org.br/dvd-enanparq-4/SESSAO%2047/S47-00-PEIXOTO,%20M;%20PONZIO,%20A.pdf

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. 2015.

Villa Planchart – the Resistance of Fantasy. In Proceedings
How we Live How we might live – Design and the spirit of Critical Utopianism
,
Annual Design History Society Conference, San Francisco/CA, 11-13 September
2015.

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. (2014, May 12).

Gio Ponti: Fantasia Italiana in New York. In Docomomo
US
. Retrieved from

https://docomomo-us.org/news/gio-ponti-fantasia-italiana-in-new-york

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. (2013).

As Casas De
Gio Ponti: O Mobiliário Como Instrumento De Projeto. (Doctoral thesis). Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Faculdade de Arquitetura. Programa de Pesquisa e
Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura. Available from LUME, Repositorio Digital UFRGS. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/77218

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. (2011).

Cultura
Disciplinar e Arquivos de Arquitetura: Gio Ponti e o Brasil. In Anais do
9º Seminário Docomomo Brasil Interdisciplinaridade E Experiências Em
Documentação E Preservação Do Patrimônio Recente,
Brasilia, June 2011. Retrieved from http://docomomo.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/069_M27_RM-CulturaDisciplinar-ART_angelica_ponzio.pdf

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. (2010).

Unity. In L.B. Peressut, I. Forino, G. Postiglione, R.
Rizzi (Ed.) Interior Wo(l)ds. (pp. 197-202). Torino: Umberto
Allemandi & C.

 

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PONZIO,
Angelica Paiva. (2008).

A Casa
Equipada de Gio Ponti – O Mobiliário como Elemento de Projeto. In ArqTexto, v.13, 58 – 81. Retrieved from https://lume.ufrgs.br/handle/10183/22299

 

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