Word: palladio
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Drawing mattered a great deal to Jones, more, probably, than it had to any English architect before him. He was not content to direct work with rough perspective sketches and leave details to the inherited skills of artisans. He had collected some 250 sheets by his paragon, Palladio. From these he learned the conventions of drawing to a fixed scale, combining them with a fluent pen- and-wash technique to give a truthful, not just impressionistic, account of the future building. One sees his formidable skill as both a technical and a pictorial draftsman growing right through the show. "Altro...
Burns' main research interest is in the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian Renaissance architect who designed homes for Italian nobles. His studies and analyses of this man have focused not only on his building structures but also on the social implications of the palaces and villas he designed and constructed...
...Albuquerque. His work is not strictly modernist or postmodernist, classical or avant-garde; the pigeonholes do not apply. Predock, a self-described "cosmic modernist" who senses the "emanations" of a particular building site and says only half jokingly that he "would rather talk about UFOs than Palladio," is nevertheless creating a remarkable body of work -- tough and sensual, fabulously imagined, altogether persuasive. He may be the first great New Age architect...
...Carree at Nimes in the south of France. All the architectural work he had admired during his years as American Minister to France from 1785-89 -- Pierre Rousseau's Hotel de Salm, the Pantheon, the mock ruins of the Desert de Retz, the designs of dead masters like Andrea Palladio and living architects like Etienne Louis Boullee and Claude Nicolas Ledoux -- would leave their traces in his own designs, but the Maison Carree was decisive for American architecture as a whole. By copying it, Jefferson felt, one could improve the Republic's general taste, "introducing into the State an example...
...corporate office of General Foods in Westchester County, N.Y., makes its concession to history not by adapting ornamental forms but by shaping white aluminum and glass into a graceful, lyrical palace reminiscent of the work of the great 16th century architect Palladio. Designed by Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo & Associates, it has genuine richness and grandeur...