| The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio Contributor(s): Rybczynski, Witold (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743205871 ISBN-13: 9780743205870 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: From "one of our most original, accessible, and stimulating writers on architecture" ("Library Journal") comes a captivating account of the life and work of Andrea Palladio, the father of domestic architecture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | History - General - Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms - General - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 320 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rybczynski, Witold: - Witold Rybczynski has written about architecture and urbanism for The New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Home and the award-winning A Clearing in the Distance, as well as The Biography of a Building, The Mysteries of the Mall, and Now I Sit Me Down. The recipient of the National Building Museum's 2007 Vincent Scully Prize, he lives with his wife in Philadelphia, where he is emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. |