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Palladio, the Villa and the Landscape [Hardcover]

Author Gerrit Smienk
Publisher Birkhauser
Category Architecture
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Author(s)Gerrit Smienk
PublisherBirkhauser
ISBN / ASIN3034607121
ISBN-139783034607124
Sales Rank1,657,048
CategoryArchitecture
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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Andrea Palladio is universally regarded as one of the most important architects of the Re-naissance. He was the first ""professional architect"" and was strongly influenced by Greek and Roman architecture, particularly by Vitruvius. His treatise ""Quattro libri dellarchitettura"" also earned him worldwide recognition. Palladios villas meanwhile are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. This book documents and analyzes ten of Palladios eighteen surviving villas specifically in terms of their relationship with their natural surroundings; their influence on those surroundings is investigated as well. The selected villas constitute a representative cross section of Palladios wide-ranging output. The landscape formations of Veneto, where these villas are located, may be divided into three types: plains surrounded by mountains, arid plains, and marshland. Gerrit Smienk is a landscape architect with many years teaching experience at the TU Delft and the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, and is a recognized expert on the Italian Renaissance. Andrea Palladio kann zweifelsohne als einer der bedeutendsten Architekten weltweit gelten. Er war der erste «Berufsarchitekt» und wurde durch die römische und griechische Architektur, vornehmlich Vitruv, stark geprägt. Auch seine Abhandlung «Quattro libri dellarchitettura» brachte ihm weltweit Anerkennung. Die Villen Palladios gehören inzwischen dem UNESCO Weltkulturerbe an. Die ausgestellten Villen bilden einen repräsentativen Querschnitt des umfangreichen Schaffens Palladios. Die Landschaftsformationen Venetiens, in denen diese Villen stehen, lassen sich in drei Typen aufgliedern: Ebenen, von Bergen umsäumt, Trockenebenen und Marschland. Im Buch werden zehn der 18 erhaltenen Villen Palladios in ihrem spezifischen Zusammenhang zu ihrer jeweiligen landschaftlichen Umgebung dokumentieren und analysieren, ihr Einfluss auf das Landschaftsbild wird untersucht. Der Autor Gerrit Smie
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