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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. nPalladio 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. nIn 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 Palladios 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 historys seminal architectural figures, The Perfect House reflects Rybczynskis enormous admiration for his subject and provides a new way of looking at the special landscapes we call home in the modern world.n
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Vânzător: Libris.ro
Brand: Witold Rybczynski
