The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio

The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio Wydawca: Scribner Book Company Opis produktu "Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century -- and his influence is still evident in the ample porches, columned porticoes, grand ceilings, and front-door pediments of America today. In The Perfect House, bestselling author Witold Rybczynski, whose previous books (Home, A Clearing in the Distance, Now I Sit Me Down) have transformed our understanding of domestic architecture, reveals how a handful of Palladio's houses in an obscure corner of the Venetian Republic should have made their presence felt hundreds of years later and halfway across the globe. More than just a study of one of history's seminal architectural figures, The Perfect House reflects Rybczynski's enormous admiration for his subject and provides a new way of looking at the special landscapes we call "home" in the modern world. Features: Glossary, Price on Product Specyfikacja SKU: SCRB001453324 EAN: 9780743205870 Waga: 363 g Author: Rybczynski, Witold Binding: Paperback Pages: 320 Publication Year: 2003 BISAC Category 1: ARC005000 BISAC Category 2: ARC006000 BISAC Category 3: HIS037020