palladio wittkower

villa rotonda

floor plan of palladio villa rotunda made with assembly app.

palladio--bibliography

fifty four pages of sources for the study of the fine building of the venetian architect andrea palladio.

english translations of palladios pattern book, "the four books", and his lesser known guide book to the city rome.

english language pattern books inspired and influenced by palladios four books of architecture.

english language books about the man palladio. placing him in his time.

english language works on palladios buildings. the villas, town houses, and ecclesiastical buildings.

works on the genre or following of palladio, interiors and furnitures.

last for the tourist, a gazette of places in the united kingdom and ireland with palladian buildings sometimes open to the public.

 

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makielski--palladio

some palladian architecture by stanislaw makielski, has been in the spot light because of an essay by sabrina rubin-erdely on greek-lettered fraternities the magazine rollingstone published.

all of the attention has been given to a dormitory he designed for the phi kappa psi. a two storied building with dormer windows on the roof to either side of a central temple pediment supported on four columns.

the temple face of the building has five bays, the two end bays project further than the centre three, framing them and their sitting porch under the pediment which is supported on the columns screening the porch.

 

 

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couplet--muralism

blank walls, one example in a domestic building and the other behind a commercial building.

two walled areas, one a garden in luis barragans house in mexico city, and the other a car park to the side of a bank at bathurst and bloor. both of them examples of what can be termed muralism, the use of pure wall planes as the aesthetic of a building.

barragan, one of the few architects who intentionally give pure wall surface preminance in this way is the only one i can think of with a celebrity status. he has books written on his buildings, books with photos of the finished places the buildings form.

i don't know the name of the architect for the backside of the bank, and because it seems too planned to of been accidental i include it here with barragans patio as examples of muralism, the intentional use of wall surface to emphasize the form of a place.

 

 

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