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The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio by Rybczynski, Witold (Author)
The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio by Rybczynski, Witold (Author)
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The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio
Contributor(s): Rybczynski, Witold (Author)
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
US SRP: $19.99 US
Binding: Paperback
Copyright Date: 2003
Pub Date: September 09, 2003
Physical Info: 0.9" H x 8.4" L x 5.4" W (0.8 lbs) 320 pages
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.
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 T he Biography of a Building, T he 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.
