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Antonio Foscari

Andrea Palladio - Unbuilt Venice

After the successful conclusion of the centenary celebrations of Andrea Palladio’s birth, there are still many unanswered questions about his work. Antonio Foscari retraces Andrea Palladio’s life and offers new perspectives on the architect's built and unbuilt work. The author reveals an image of Venice that differs from the one we all know: a city that projects herself into the modern age by abandoning the accepted principles of late medieval culture that had so profoundly influenced its formation.

After the successful conclusion of the centenary celebrations of Andrea Palladio’s birth, there are still many unanswered questions about his work. Antonio Foscari retraces Andrea Palladio’s life and offers new perspectives on the architect's built and unbuilt work. The author reveals an image of Venice that differs from the one we all know: a city that projects herself into the modern age by abandoning the accepted principles of late medieval culture that had so profoundly influenced its formation.

"one of the most comprehensive studies of Palladio and his political context"

– Takero Shimazaki, RIBA Journal

Author(s): Antonio Foscari

Design:

15 x 24 cm, 6 x 9 ½ in

288 pages, 230 illustrations

hardback

2010, 978-3-03778-222-4, English
Architectural Research Palladio Architectural History Architecture
CHF 45.00

Antonio Foscari

Antonio Foscari is an architect and has been a professor of architecture at the University of Venice since 1971. In 1973, he restored the Villa Malcontenta, built for his ancestors by Andrea Palladio, and has concentrated his research on buildings by the great Renaissance architect since that date.

CHF 45.00