Essay on La Rotonda

In the past, many men in the field of architecture have become famous for their works, especially in the time of the Renaissance in Italy. These men included Filippo Brunelleschi, Leon Battista Alberti, and, perhaps the most important of all, Andrea Palladio. Widely regarded as the most influential and famous architect in the Western world, Andrea Palladio was “the last of the great Humanist architects” (Trachtenburg, 2002, p. 311). Since it is impossible to encompass all of Palladio’s accomplishments in one single essay, this paper will aim to give a detailed overview of Andrea’s early life, influences, greatest works, and his Palladian following.

His design features such as porticos, classical orders, and dwellings have inspired many American architects to recreate these designs in their buildings. As previously mentioned, porticos represent the importance of the residents and enhanced the architecture. The Frascati building in Virginia proves that the portico served as a symbol of importance because the resident was a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. This buildings portico is almost identical to Palladio’s Villa Emo’s. There are many other buildings in America that have integrated this feature into their designs following Palladio’s principles. Nevertheless there are other modern-day architects who did not follow his principles and the porticos are unsymmetrical. Although some have failed to follow his principles there are some buildings that portray his designs well. An example of an American building with a portico is Whitehall. The portico is located in the central section of the building. Along with the portico the architect of this building incorporated Corinthian columns into the design, a classical order that was seen in many of Palladio’s

Perhaps the key moment that sparked Palladio's career was being employed by the Humanist poet and scholar, Gian Giorgio Trissino, from 1538 to 1539. Trissino became his mentor and provided him with this humanist education. This contributed greatly in giving Palladio an education in architecture. It did this as by measuring the buildings of ancient Rome, he collected accurate information on classical proportions

To many, Andrea Palladio is seen as one of the most influential architects that there have ever been. He is also credited with being the main influence for the architectural style known as Palladianism. Palladianism developed well through the 18th Century and can be seen here in the U.S. When you look at buildings like the White House and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, we can see how much Andrea influenced others. His influence is also seen in England looking at different houses belonging to the royals. Andrea Palladio built many buildings in his time, “He built churches, town and country houses, public buildings and bridges in Venice and on the Venetian mainland and in and around Vicenza.” In my paper, I plan on starting with Andrea Palladio and his works on places like the Teatro Olimpico and moving onto the many iconic theaters throughout America and Europe. And how they might or might not have been influenced by Andrea.

Andrea Palladio was one of the most distinguished figures in western architecture.  Palladio was born in Venice, Italy into a prominent family. His parents wanted him to go into politics, but from an early age Palladio shifted to architectural interests. He began to sculpt as a preteen then became a bricklayer for a stone mason. As a young adult he became a stonemason and specialized in monuments and decorative sculptures. His first big break was when he worked with an renowned architect to renovate an Italian villa. Over time he became trusted by his superiors and eventually became promoted into bigger jobs until he became the lead architect in the project. Because Palladio was respected by all, everyone would listen to his ideas with an open mind. What made Andrea Palladio’s work so influential was that he connected the past with the present and his buildings were in synch with nature. Palladio wrote a

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines architecture as the art or science of designing and creating buildings. Almost all locations around the world have at least one or several buildings that are of historical significance or greatly admired. These buildings not only identify its citizens and government, but the state. Through architecture it’s safe to say that one can measure many things about the culture, lifestyle, creativity, and social structure. In this paper I will be comparing and contrasting two structures located Miami, Florida.

Architecture often stands on its own edifying right, but how much more affluent we are to seek an understanding of the cultural diversity and design influence one had on architecture when presented in terms of an historical account. This paper seeks to piece together the formal elements of the villa with dignifying examples of diversity from Hadrian’s travels and abhor of the surroundings of Rome itself.

In conclusion, we can see that architecture played a significant role in history. Used as a form of expression, that dates all the way back to the earlier years of the Greek and Roman empires.  Whether it was in Athens or Rome, we see that those structures through the use of majestuous design were a show of power and greatness from each respective

Influenced by Roman and Greek architecture in the 16th century, Andrea Palladio remains, to this day, one of the most influential architects in history. Although most of his buildings remain in Italy, Andrea Palladio established his place in history by promulgating a set of guidelines in I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, which could be easily spread. Remnants of Palladio’s legacy can be found all over the world as a result of others utilizing his unique style. One such person was Lord Burlington. During the 18th century, Burlington sparked a Palladian style revival with the construction of the Chiswick house, which remains one of the greatest examples of neo-Palladian style in England.

His exceptional ground-breaking genius made him the inventor of a unique and personal architectural language that defies classification. The work of Gaudí is remarkable for its range of forms, textures, polychromy and for the free, expressive way in which these elements of his art seem to be composed. The complex geometries of a Gaudí building so coincide with its architectural structure that the whole, including its surface, gives the appearance of being a natural object in complete conformity with nature’s laws. Such a sense of total unity also informed the life

Architects have a major importance in characterizing a city through their concept and building design. As time goes on, a lot of architect are creating new styles and new methods of construction; these architects get inspired by different things and create their own concept and style, sometimes there are similarity between architects' styles. One architect who stood out of the crowd and created a very distinctive style is Antoni Gaudi. Gaudi was a Spanish architect whose work is very identified as it can be known through its organic structure, colors, and materials. What really differentiate Antoni Gaudi is his controversial new style.

The Villa La Rotonda was designed to be built on top a hill which was situated just outside the city of Vicenza. Unlike numerous other Palladian villas the building was not in any way designed from the very start to be able to accommodate a working farm. In fact the sophisticated building was designed for a site which in modern terms would have been referred to as “suburban”. In fact the architect Palladio had classed the building in question as a “palazzo’ rather than a villa which it came to be. The entire design was so symmetrical having an impeccable squarer plan with about four facades with each projecting portico. The entire whole was contained all within an imaginary circle which touched each and every corner of the building and the individual centers of the porticos (Lasansky 104).

Throughout his work and life’s achievements, Borromini was a man with a hard personality, most of all; his work came first to an extent where he gave up on commitment and other relations such as family and the ties that came with it. As this work expounds on the personal, professional and progressive career of his work that all works towards the unravelling of his true abilities as an architect; because of his steadfast commitment, his work left behind architectural designs, masterpieces, and philosophies.  He paved the way for a new style of baroque architecture that was not present prior to his discoveries. He might not have had a marketable personality, but he did change how architecture were to be viewed in the future of construction. In

In “ The Mathematics of Ideal villa” Colin Rowe focused between the Neo-Palladio's Villa Malcontenta and Le Corbusier Villa Garches with respect to the ratio A:B = B ( A+ B ). It is the essay by Colin Rowe in 1976, which is the comparative analysis of Neo-Palladian Villa Malcontenta of 16th century and Le Corbusier Villa Garches of 1920s by mathematical. In this essay Colin Rowe, he put both the villas. Villa Garches by Le Corbusier and Villa Malcontenta by Palladio as single block and allowing the structural variation. He count that both blocks with corresponding volumes, measuring 8 units in length, 5 ½ in breadth and 5 in height. In Garches the spatial internal from front to back is in ratio of ½: ½: ½: 1 ½:1 ½, where in Malcontenta it

“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” (Gehry, 2012). What Frank Gehry was trying to say in simple terms was our culture cannot do without proper appreciation of its classical roots and it goes without saying that the Romans and Greeks have influenced art and architecture with its classical style in a number of different ways. Allow me to give a definition for the word classical. “Classical” refers to any art or architecture modelled after ancient Roman or Greek styles. In this essay I will be discussing what the word architecture means in architecture, tracing its origins through Greek and Roman civilisation and comparing the key similarities of these two different but similar influential cultures. I will also be referring to a few examples of past and present examples of classical styles and scrutinizing from these examples why and how the style of classical architecture has evolved and still stayed appropriate in our very different contemporary cultures.