- I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura
for a London publisher in the eighteenth century.
Palladio founded an architectural movement named after him known as
Palladian architecture . "I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura" contains Palladio's own designs celebrating the purity and simplicity ofclassical architecture . Some of these ideas had not got further than the drawing board while others, for examplevilla plans, had been successfully built. The book's clarity inspired numerouspatron s and other architects. Palladian architecture grew in popularity acrossEurope and, by the end of the 18th century, had extended as far asNorth America .Thomas Jefferson ,president of theUnited States , was a keen admirer of Palladio and once referred to the book as "the Bible". The four books were used to inform his own work as the architect ofMonticello and theUniversity of Virginia .Palladio drew inspiration from surviving Roman buildings, Roman authors (especially the architect
Vitruvius ) and Italian Renaissance architects. However, "The Four Books of Architecture" providedsystematic rules and plans for buildings which were creative and unique. Palladio’s villa style is based on details applied to a structural system built of bricks. He offers two types of general rules in the corpus: design rules (those based on appearance) and construction rules (those based on the logic of villa construction). Here rules of the two types are identified in sets from which sub-sets of identifiers and rules can be written.Each of the nine rule-sets contains many sub-identities of components and procedures for physical construction. A rule-set such as “Walls”, that identifies five sub-rules based on wall thickness, only needs construction rules; there is no need for rules based on style. In contrast, rules for “Frames” are based on a geometric style of curves and shape proportions. The results will yield clear identities for a shape
grammar composition that can be based on physical construction and visual style.These identities are taken from the first book of architecture and a survey of built villas. These are the nine rule-sets that define identity:
#Walls -parametric formula
#Ceilings - parametric formula
#Stairs - parametric formula
#Columns - parametric object
#Doors - parametric formula
#Windows - parametric formula
#Frames - parametric object
#Roof - parametric formula
#Details - parametric object and formulaee also
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Andrea Palladio
*Palladian Villas of the Veneto
*Palladian architecture External links
* " [http://imageviewer.octavo.com:8088/pm/thumbnails.php?proj=pldarc&view=007&derv=27&capt=caption&prod=ode I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura] " — facsimile of the book at octavo.com
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