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Title: The Perfect House : A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio by Witold Rybczynski ISBN: 0-7432-0586-3 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Utterly engaging
Comment: Rybczynski has written a book that is part social history, part art history, and part travelogue, as he describes his journey through Northern Italy visiting and discovering the remaining country villas created by the great architect Andrea Palladio.
Rybczynski manages to write about the "art" side of the architecture in a way that is both scholarly and accessible; however, the best feature of this book, from my perspective, is the insight he brings to architecture and the role of the architect in creating spaces for living. How did the Pisani family live in its villa? How did Palladio integrate the main house of the Villa Badoer with its farm buildings? How did Palladio himself interact with his clients? Above all, what did it feel like to live in buildings that were both magnificent designs and truly "home" to their owners?
The book is so vibrant and Rybczynski's passion for his subject so profound you will want to jump on a plane tomorrow to see what he has seen!
Rating: 5
Summary: Ever Thoughtful and Lucid
Comment: Witold Rybczynski is the best contemporary writer on architecture as a mundane philosophy, and the genius of this quiet book is to merge travelogue and andecdotal memoir with the more monumental history of art and place in which studies of Palladio usually traffic. Rybczynski's dilatory and patient, witty and earthy prose is, in my view, the writerly equivalent of the best buildings architecture has to offer. Like the best buildings, his writing creates a "comfort zone" we as readers would gladly inhabit. I encourage anyone to read this book who has an interest in--but vague suspicion or fear of--architecture as a discipline. Through a subtle yet finally forceful style, Rybczynski demonstrates how the demotic and practical dimension of the architectural "science" always trumps the obscurantist and elitist postures of those who make--as well as those who can actually afford to buy--a designer building.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very good book. Needs more illustrations.
Comment: Excellent prose. Fantastic selection of villas. It would be helpful if subsequent editions had more illustrations. I found myself constantly flipping back to try to determine what the author was mentioning. All in all, though, a worthwhile read.
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Title: The Look of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski ISBN: 0195156331 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski ISBN: 0140102310 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski ISBN: 0140105662 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture by Witold Rybczynski ISBN: 0140168893 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Andrea Palladio: The Architect in His Time by Bruce Boucher, Paolo Marton ISBN: 0789203006 Publisher: Abbeville Press, Inc. Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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