Architecture CodeX #48 Villa Capra by Andrea Palladio
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- čas přidán 6. 01. 2022
- A PERFECT BUILDING: Architecture Codex looks at the Renaissance Villa by one of the greatest architects who ever lived and explores the concept of perfection in architecture.
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an artist is ALWAYS subordinate to his/her patron
Which is why great clients are rare. Thanks for watching and commenting. I hope you enjoy other videos.
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Very interesting documentary, thanks for the explanations. In my opinion, after Wittkover that states root two to be the only irrational number of relevance in renaissance architectural theory, and after March's " architectonics of humanism", 1998, the rectangles the rotunda design is based on are root two rectangles, and not golden section rectangles...see:" Pythagorean Palladio: Palladio proportionality patterns decoded?" In SAHANZ 2021...
I'll look but regardless there are plenty of golden sections. Like the Fibonacci series, these might all be different expressions of the same math.
wouldn't shortening the dome have been a flaw?
Hee hee. I believe I said I would avoid that question. Since the goal was inspiration from the Pantheon and not duplicating the Pantheon, Palladio, and the architect finishing the project, were not bound by the details of the Pantheon. So will continue to bestow the title "a perfect building" with the understanding that an architect, like a painter, can make inspired last-minute revisions for whatever reason they wish. Let me know if that sounds like a cop-out. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I thought "palladian" was because of the Paladino in Rome, the place where the emperors had their palaces.
Terms and names are ever changing. But according to some sources, palladian windows were in the popular 17th century style books who referenced Andrea Palladio. The ruins at the Palatine hill had no "windows" intact. But it is a reasonable assumption. And who knows if Palladio's name - one granted by a mentor meaning "wise one" may have its origin from the Etruscan, Pallus, after whom the hill was named.
@@architecturecodex9818, even if there isn't any window left in the Palatine hills from that period, we do have preserved paints from that period that shows exactly how constructions looked like also as the windows for instance the drawings from Pompeii. And there's also preserved archs throughout the former Roman Empire.
In architectural circles we actually often refer to roundtop windows as thermae or thermal windows because they were used in the baths of Diocletian and Caracalla in Rome. And Palladio probably got his inspiration from those. In all the days I walked the Palatine hill, I don't recall seeing an arched window. But I am open to any new evidence.
They don't even make minature buildings like this no more lol. They just make soulless glass boxes...
Thanks for the comments. As you might have seen I like all styles of architecture, as long as they are executed well. For a critique on a souless glass box check out #54
LOOK AT THE PALLADIO DRAWINGS AND COMPARE WITH PHOTOS OF THE BUILDING. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOME CHANGES MADE ON THE BUILDING SIGHT BY ARTISTIC LISCENCE.
Recall I note in the video the building was completed by another architect after Palladio died. And I noted the dome was changed. Still, I would argue it is a perfect building...
Yes the building looks perfect, and it's form and forms are perfect, but it's also a deeply flawed work. A house must be lived in, but the attic story here has such low ceilings that those rooms were never livable. Of all Palladian villas this has always been known to be the most perfect and beautiful, but also the most problematic.
Great architecture can be a messy business.
I have not been to the attic story, so what is the height? Obvious, that story would be just for the servants so it being commodious would not be a design factor.
The servants would have lived on the ground floor, this level was converted to living quarters in the 1600s.
slimy advert for your book
Not really, I expand on the link between philosophy and architecture. A radically different approach to architecture theory than they taught us in school. But it is worth reading and shorter than Palladio's and Vitruvius'.
Vitruvius never built a single building.
I don't think that is correct. We simply do not have a record of the buildings he built and it is possible none survived. Thanks for watching and commenting.