From the archive

摘要

In an article titled The latest on the new spa of Ischia, published in March 1952, Gio Ponti presented the readers of Domus with a small work by Ignazio Gardella: the Terme Regina Isabella at Lacco Ameno, on the island off Naples. Building work was still going on, but the haste to publish was justified by at least two good reasons. Firstly, the area was dear to Ponti because it reminded him of the period of his Mediterranean wanderings with Bernard Rudofsky. The second was that the architect was Ignazio Gardella, the young master of non-sectarian rationalism, whom he had praised in Stile in 1941 for the "innate elegance that confers a spirituality to his achievements of chaste simplicity".