The perfect house
Subtitle: a journey with the Renaissance master Andrea Palladio
By: Witold Rybczynski
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Palladio, Andrea, -- 1508-1580; Architecture, Renaissance -- Italy; Architects -- Italy -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: "Before Andrea Palladio began designing his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, architectural genius was reserved for temples and palaces. Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form, and he not only designed and built, he wrote.

His late-sixteenth-century architectural treatises were read and studied by great thinkers as diverse as Thomas Jefferson and Inigo Jones, profoundly influencing the design of Monticello, the tidewater plantation houses of Virginia, and the White House. All across America today, Palladio's influence is evident in ample porches and columned porticoes, in grand ceiling heights and front-door pediments.".

"In The Perfect House, Witold Rybczynski, whose books on domestic and landscape architecture have transformed our understanding of parks and buildings, looks at Palladio's famous villas, not with the eye of an art historian but with the eye of an architect. He wanted to know why a handful of houses in an obscure corner of the Venetian Republic should have made their presence felt hundreds of years later and halfway across the globe."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-253) and index