The Perfect House: A Journey With The Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio - Softcover

Rybczynski, Witold

 
9780743221399: The Perfect House: A Journey With The Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0743221397 ISBN 13: 9780743221399
Verlag: Simon & Schuster UK, 2003

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Renaissance master Andrea Palladio's architectural DNA can be seen on modern-day icons from Buckingham Palace to the White House, from numerous English stately homes to Virginian plantation houses. In THE PERFECT HOUSE Witold Rybczynski travels along the Brenta River in north-eastern Italy to experience the surviving original Palladian villas for himself. He sets out to discover how a rustic sixteenth-century stonemason, born Andrea di Pietro, first had to become 'cultured' before he could be one of the most respected architects of all time, and how Palladio managed to bring the elegance of Ancient Rome to the Venetian countryside.
Out of the chaos of hired cars and cheap flights, towns packed with 'Ristoranti Palladio' and herds of tourists, Rybczynski savours moments of epiphany as he contemplates Palladio's perfect houses. Part travelogue, part historical biography, part architectural guide, THE PERFECT HOUSE is a delightful and enlightening exploration of the birth of domestic architecture and the man who spawned it.

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Witold Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh, raised in Surrey and attended Jesuit schools in England and Canada. He is an architect and Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books and his exploration of domestic comfort, HOME, has been translated into eight languages.

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Verlag
Simon & Schuster UK
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0743221397
ISBN 13 
9780743221399
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Anzahl der Seiten
320
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