{"product_id":"the-hand-of-palladio","title":"The Hand of Palladio","description":"\"The Italian 16th century architect Andrea Palladio is probably the most influential architect ever to have lived. The great 18th century English houses took their form from the villas he built around Venice for the nobility, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in Virginia is directly inspired by him, and even modernist architect Le Corbusier owes a great deal to his system of proportions. The original approach of this book is to investigate Palladio's personal touch, not just in the decorative details such as mouldings and capitals but in how he composes the base of a building, resolves a vault, turns the corner with a frieze and so on in short, the questions all architects had to solve if their buildings were to be wholly harmonious. Lorenzo Capellini has taken the over three hundred photographs in this book of all Palladio's surviving buildings. The text is by the famous Italian architect and architectural historian, Paolo Portoghesi, who has long championed the cause of re-establishing a link between modernity and tradition. Basing himself on a profound knowledge of the scholarly literature, but also his direct experience as a practising architect of Palladio's buildings, Portoghesi aims to give us inside information about the inner workings of Palladio's mind and his buildings. This book is topical, not just because the quincentenary of Palladio's birth falls in 2008, but because of the current debate over the desirability of roots and continuity in contemporary architecture, and the need for a more intimate understanding of this very great architect whose invention has shaped so many buildings right down to our own times\"--Back cover.","brand":"Capellini, Lorenzo,Portoghesi, Paolo","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":54288763814171,"sku":"mon0000804701","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/7192593485336.jpg?v=1792371268","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/the-hand-of-palladio","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}