The Working Method of Andrea Palladio: Palaces, Vicenza and the World

ISBN-13: 9783031432873 / Angielski

Marco Marino

Spis treści

Chapter 1 - Architect of the city

The World's Most Productive Architect

The Cities of Palladio

A new language for the architecture of the city

The people of Vicenza

A city of gentlemen

The city as scenography

Chapter 2 - The Gothic Vicenza. An empty city full of Palaces

Population and urban dimensions in mediaeval Veneto

The industrial city

Filling up Vicenza

The City of Palaces

Chapter 3 - Andrea Palladio's Method and Work

The search for a new visual identity for the city

The architect-director of the new city

Bays as a trigger for building the city

The bays of the Palazzo della Ragione 

The advantages of the bay-module and Palladio's references

Piecemeal Planning in Palladio's work

Chapter 4 - Vicenza after Palladio

The other Palladios

Contemporary Vicenza

The Design of the World

Palladio Legacy

O autorze

Marco Marino is an Associate Researcher at the Iuav University of Venice. He has been permanently collaborating with Professor Benno Albrecht since 2016 in his research activity on sustainable architecture. He is part of the "Urbicide Task Force" of the Iuav University of Venice which deals with studies and projects on the destruction and reconstruction of cities accomplished by natural and anthropic disruptions.

Blurb

This book shows through historical data, diagrams and drawings, the design system of an Italian historic center, that of Vicenza, Italy. Vicenza is the result of an urban construction process that has as its model the invention of the Palladian design system. The main argument is how the architectural vision of Andrea Palladio shaped Vincenza to the city it is today. Vicenza is an example of a collective dream, an expression of the best Renaissance artistic culture, a classic example that a city can reform itself through intellectual activity.