Proto-industrial architecture of the Veneto in the age of Palladio / edited by Deborah Howard ; translation from Italian Deborah Howard.

Title & Author:

Proto-industrial architecture of the Veneto in the age of Palladio / edited by Deborah Howard ; translation from Italian Deborah Howard.

Publication:

Rome : Officina Libraria ; Vicenza : Palladio Museum, [2021]
©2021

Description:

287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Series:

Officina libraria

Notes:
Translation of "L'architettura protoindustriale del Veneto nell'età di Palladio".
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-277) and indexes.
In English.

Summary:

The remarkable career of the architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) is largely due to an extraordinary moment of prosperity in the Veneto mainland, both in the city and in the countryside: a boom due in large measure to a little-studied revolution in manufacturing.0This book brings to light for the first time the architecture of these early industries, especially the production of textiles (wool, silk), mining and metalworking, paper manufacture, ceramics, sawmilling and leather-tanning. The huge surge in patent applications to the Venetian Senate in the period highlights the parallel technological improvements in both efficiency and quality. Former proto-industrial buildings across the Veneto, studied at first-hand, reveal the efficiency of hydraulic power and smooth-running mechanical processes.0Water-power, a clean, renewable energy source, and structures made of natural, traditional materials, have much to teach today's civilisation.

ISBN:

9788833671819 paperback
883367181X paperback

Subject:

Architecture, Industrial Italy Veneto History 16th century.
Industries Italy Veneto History 16th century.
Hydraulic engineering Italy Veneto History 16th century.
Water-power Italy Veneto History 16th century.
Architecture industrielle Italie Vénétie Histoire 16e siècle.
Industrie Italie Vénétie Histoire 16e siècle.
Technologie hydraulique Italie Vénétie Histoire 16e siècle.
Industries
Hydraulic engineering
Economic history
Architecture, Industrial
Water-power
Veneto (Italy) Economic conditions 16th century.
Vénétie (Italie) Conditions économiques 16e siècle.
Italy Veneto

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Howard, Deborah, 1946- editor, translator.
Centro internazionale di studi di architettura "Andrea Palladio" di Vicenza, issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317166
Call No.: 317166
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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