Palladio four books of architecture video

Boucher also acquaints us with Palladio the environmentalist. Without solid foundations nothing of substance that lasts can ever be produced. Something that still holds true today in our own frenetic world. We learn to know and appreciate why Palladio wanted to вЂ see with my own eyes and measure everything with my own handsвЂ™ enabling him to produce well conceived, detailed and integrated concepts that ultimately led to successful results.

He offers us an opportunity to not only understand how and why his architecture evolved in tune with intellectual ideas and social change, but also to visit the buildings that influenced him on an armchair ride, illustrated by brilliant photography, principally by Paolo Marton. He paints a clear and vivid picture for us of this man of his time, a вЂRenaissance ManвЂ™, one whose thirst for knowledge is only exceeded by his desire for more. Just as Palladio himself, in his Quattro Libri, endeavoured always to address a lay audience, so Bruce Boucher brings the architectural hero of his book, successfully into the same arena. They produced villa architecture, in what has been coined the вЂPalladianвЂ™ style, one that had a profound effect on the development of western domestic architecture for over two centuries. This splendid narrative, lets us travel with Palladio on a dusty road to Rome on foot, just like all those young English gentlemen of the C18 on their вЂGrand TourвЂ™ who followed PalladioвЂ™s important guide ( Antichita di Roma) to its ancient monuments.Following publication of PalladioвЂ™s ultimate travelerвЂ™s guide and his Four Books of Architecture ( Quattro Libri dellвЂ™ Architettura) in England by Palladian enthusiast Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl Burlington in the early eighteenth century, enthusiastic English noblemen took up his ideas readily. He re-interpreted the first century treatise of Roman architect Marcus Pollio Vitruvius, taking note of his advice to use eurhythmy, proportion, order and harmony to design buildings for both public and private use. Palladio made вЂ man the measure of all thingsвЂ™.

But we digressвЂ¦Palladio, Boucher confidently tells us, вЂ is arguably the most influential architect the western world has ever producedвЂ™.Д«y the end of the book I have to admit I was ready to jump on a plane for Venice, Vicenza and the Veneto to visit all those buildings, both public and private, designed by Palladio so that I too could enjoy experiencing вЂtheir attraction and wonder at their perfectionвЂ™. DonвЂ™t know about you but I have always been ready to go to Venice in 20 minutes. Professor Bruce BoucherвЂ™s scholarly and accessible work, Andrea Palladio, The Architect in his Time was first published in 1994 in a вЂuser friendly versionвЂ™вЂ¦to fit comfortably into a suitcase or backpack for a quick trip to Vicenza, the scene of many of PalladioвЂ™s triumphant works in architecture.

Palladio four books of architecture video