The villa : form and ideology of country houses / James S. Ackerman.

Main entry:

Ackerman, James S., author.

Title & Author:

The villa : form and ideology of country houses / James S. Ackerman.

Publication:

Description:

304 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Series:

The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 1985
Bollingen series ; XXXV, 34

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-299) and index.
The typology of the villa -- The ancient Roman villa -- The early villas of the Medici -- Palladio's villas and their predecessors -- The image of a country life in the sixteenth-century villa books -- Appendix: The advantages of villa life -- The Palladian villa in England -- The landscape garden -- Thomas Jefferson -- The picturesque -- Andrew Jackson Downing and the American romantic villa -- The modern villa : Wright and Le Corbusier.

Summary:

The eminent architectural historian James Ackerman, author of classic studies on Palladio and Michelangelo, discusses villa building in Western countries at various times and places from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. Ackerman uses the phenomenon of the "country place" as a focus for examining not only the relationship between urban and rural life but also that between building and natural environment and between social, cultural, economic, and political forces and architectural design.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0691099111 (alk. paper)
9780691099118 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Country homes.
Maisons de campagne.
country houses.
Architektur
Geschichte
Villa
Villas.

Added entries:

A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 1985.
Bollingen series ; 35, 34.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 52828
Call No.: NA2599.8.A182 (ID:90-B1642)
Status: Available

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