POSSIBLE PALLADIAN VILLAS (Plus a Few Instructively Impossible Ones)

Hersey, George + Richard Freedman

Published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1992

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Squarish quarto, 188 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs ground plans and section drawings. Illustrated wrappers. - First edition. The villas of Palladio have been among the most influential buildings in history. Drawing on the architect's original published legacy of forty-odd designs, George Hersy and Richard Freedman reveal the rigorous geometric rules by which Palladio conceived these structures. Where most earlier attempts to analyze the villas are mere lists of numbers and ratios that ignore space distribution, the present rules produce actual designs. Using a computer, the authors test each rule in every possible application, establishing a degree of validity not possible in ad hoc analyses. Progressing from the architect's most obvious to his subtlest geometry, the computer ultimately creates villa plans and facades that are stylistically indistinguishable from those of Palladio himself. from rear cover. Seller Inventory # 001700

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Title: POSSIBLE PALLADIAN VILLAS (Plus a Few ...

Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine