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<p>"Palladio 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.</p> <p> In <i>The Perfect House,</i> bestselling author Witold Rybczynski, whose previous books 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, <i>The Perfect House</i> 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.</p>

Author

Witold Rybczyński

Publisher

Scribner

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780743205870

Subjects

Memoir, Architecture, History