New Palladians
Author: Alireza Sagharchi
Publisher: Artmedia (Acc)
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
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Possible Palladian Villas
Author: George L. Hersey
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780262082105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on Palladio's original published legacy of approximately 40 designs, the authors attempt to reveal the rigorous geometric rules by which Palladio conceived these structures. Using a computer, they test each rule in every possible application.
Palladian Days
Author: Sally Gable
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2009-01-21
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0307489345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA chronicle of an influential villa by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio that brings a sense of discovery to the Italian countryside and its larger national history. • “If a vacation in Italy this summer just isn’t going to make the cut, this book might be the next best thing.” —Chicago Tribune In 1552, in the countryside outside Venice, the great Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio built Villa Cornaro. In 1989, Sally and Carl Gable became its bemused new owners. Called by Town & Country one of the ten most influential buildings in the world, the villa is the centerpiece of the Gables’ enchanting journey into the life of a place that transformed their own. From the villa’s history and its architectural pleasures, to the lives of its former inhabitants, to the charms of the little town that surrounds it, this loving account delivers generosity, humor, and a sense of discovery. “Palladian Days is nothing short of wonderful–part adventure, mystery, history, diary, and even cookbook. The Gables’ lively account captures the excitement of their acquisition and restoration of one of the greatest houses in Italy. Beguiled by Palladio and the town of Piombino Dese, they trace the history of the Villa Cornaro and their absorption of Italian life. Bravo!” —Susan R. Stein, Gilder Curator and Vice President of Museum Programs, Monticello
The Palladians
Author: John Harris
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780847802401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Palladian Revival
Author: John Harris
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780300059830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1726, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, built an addition to his modest country house on the river Thames at Chiswick. The structure was a free standing villa, which is the subject of this book. The author explores the villa's architectural inspiration and the evolution of its design.
Thomas Jefferson, Architect
Author: Mabel O. Wilson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-10-22
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 030024620X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling reassessment of Thomas Jefferson's architecture that scrutinizes the complex, and sometimes contradictory, meanings of his iconic work Renowned as a politician and statesman, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was also one of the premier architects of the early United States. Adept at reworking Renaissance--particularly Palladian--and Enlightenment ideals to the needs of the new republic, Jefferson completed visionary building projects such as his two homes, Monticello and Poplar Forest; the Capitol building in Richmond; and the University of Virginia campus. Featuring a wealth of archival images, including models, paintings, drawings, and prints, this volume presents compelling essays that engage broad themes of history, ethics, philosophy, classicism, neoclassicism, and social sciences while investigating various aspects of Jefferson's works, design principles, and complex character. In addition to a thorough introduction to Jefferson's career as an architect, the book provides insight into his sources of inspiration and a nuanced take on the contradictions between his ideas about liberty and his embrace of slavery, most poignantly reflected in his plan for the academical village at the University of Virginia, which was carefully designed to keep enslaved workers both invisible and accessible. Thomas Jefferson, Architect offers fresh perspectives on Jefferson's architectural legacy, which has shaped the political and social landscape of the nation and influenced countless American architects since his time.
Winterstoke
Author: L.T.C. Rolt
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2015-06-25
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 057132603X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'It had always struck me that, despite its overwhelming importance in the story of mankind, far too little attention had been paid to the Industrial Revolution in literature and art . . . I conceived the idea of concentrating a number of actual historical happenings in the English Midlands upon one imaginary industrial town . . . from the days of the first monastic mill on the river to the present day when an atomic research establishment on the outskirts of a huge blackened town struck a new apocalyptic note . . . I called my imaginary town Winterstoke.' Tom Rolt, writing in 1972 L. T. C. ('Tom') Rolt (1919-74) was a famed pioneer in the preservation of Britain's canal networks and railways, a biographer of the great civil engineers, and a forerunner of our current green movement. Winterstoke (1952), arguably his most visionary work, is reissued here with a new introduction featuring his widow Sonia and son Tim.
Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape
Author: Denis E. Cosgrove
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780299155148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHailed as a landmark in its field since its first publication in 1984, Denis E. Cosgrove's Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape has been influential well beyond geography. It has continued to spark lively debate among historians, geographers, art historians, social theorists, landscape architects, and others interested in the social and cultural politics of landscape.
Bringers of the Dawn
Author: Barbara Marciniak
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1992-12-01
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 159143906X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompiled from more than four hundred hours of channeling by Barbara Marciniak, Bringers of the Dawn imparts to us the wisdom of the Pleiadians, a group of enlightened beings who have come to Earth to help us discover how to reach a new stage of evolution. Master storytellers and humorists, they advise us to become media free, to work in teams, and to eliminate the words "should" and "try" from our vocabularies. We learn how to go beyond fear, how the original human was a magnificent being with twelve strands of DNA and twelve chakra centers, and who our "gods" are. Startling, intense, intelligent, and controversial, these teachings offer essential reading for anyone questioning their existence on this planet and the direction of our collective conscious--and unconscious. By remembering that we are Family of Light, that we share an ancient ancestry with the universe around us, we become "bringers of the dawn," consciously creating a new reality, a new Earth.
Reading Architectural History
Author: Dana Arnold
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0415250498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the historiographic and socio/cultural implications of the mapping of British architectural history with particular reference to eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain.
