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...name is suggestive, evoking pedimented villas on the bank of the foggy Brenta, the symmetrical façade of Venice's Church of the Redentore, and white porticos glimpsed through Deep South veils of Spanish moss. Palladio died almost 400 years ago, but he was the most imitated architect in history; even today his name remains synonymous with flawless precision and proportion. He was, and still is, the Mozart of his profession. Though 1973 marks no special anniversary in his life, one of Italy's most interesting tourist attractions this summer is a huge show of Andrea Palladio...
...When arguing that the ideal church plan should be circular-"the most proper figure to show the unity, infinite essence, uniformity and justice of God"-Palladio echoed a longstanding Renaissance fascination with absolute geometric shapes as metaphor. His purism was extreme. It is strange, for instance, to find an architect in 16th century Venice, a contemporary of Veronese (who frescoed the Barbaro villa), objecting to murals in churches-"Among all colors none is more suitable to temples than white; by reason that the purity of this color. . . is highly grateful to God." Of course, the preference...
Though Brezhnev is not exactly an "economic mendicant dressed up as a military giant"-the acerbic description of him by French Political Scientist Pierre Hassner-he has high personal stakes in the summit. Indeed, they may be higher than Nixon's. As the architect of what he calls a "peace program" of détente, Brezhnev has gone further than any other Moscow ruler since the Bolshevik Revolution in seeking a normal relationship with the West...
...hull is a classic; its lineage traces back to a 19th century naval architect named Colin Archer, who was commissioned to design a boat for harbor pilots going out to meet incoming sailing ships. Archer developed a double-ended hull capable of standing offshore for weeks at a time, then making for home shorthanded in steep northern seas...
Freedom from Frills. Like Thomas E. Colvin, the naval architect who designed and built the lovely junk-rigged schooner Gazelle, the men who drew the lines of all these boats are men whose restless imaginations were shaped by the same traditions that molded Colin Archer-the traditions and demands of the sea. Simplicity, sturdiness and an utter freedom from frills are the hallmark of their work...