The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio - Couverture souple

Rybczynski, Witold

 
9780743205870: The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0743205871 ISBN 13 : 9780743205870
Editeur : Scribner, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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. 

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Éditeur
Scribner
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0743205871
ISBN 13 
9780743205870
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
info@simonandschuster.nl

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Utrecht
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9780743205863: The Perfect House: A Journey With the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio

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ISBN 10 :  0743205863 ISBN 13 :  9780743205863
Editeur : Scribner, 2002
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