The villa : from ancient to modern / by Joseph Rykwert ; photographs by Roberto Schezen.

Main entry:

Rykwert, Joseph, 1926-2024

Title & Author:

The villa : from ancient to modern / by Joseph Rykwert ; photographs by Roberto Schezen.

Publication:

New York : H.N. Abrams, 2000.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Villa of mysteries, Pompeii, Italy. Hadrian's villa, Tivoli, Italy. The Alhambra, Granada, Spain. Girolama Genga, Villa Imperiale Albani, Pesaro, Italy. Giacomo da Vignola, Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Italy. Pirro Ligorio, Casino of Pius IV, Rome, Italy. Andrea Palladio, Villa Rotonda, Vicenza, Italy. Giacomo della Porta, Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, Italy. Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Petit Trianon, Versailles, France. Robert Adam, Syon House, Middlesex, England. Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia. Karl-Friedrich Schinkel, Schloss Glienicke, Berlin, Germany. Adolf Loos, Villa Karma, Montreux, Switzerland. Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy, France. Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois. Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, Francois de Menil House, East Hampton, New York. Richard Meier and Partners, Neugebauer House, Naples, Florida.

Summary:

The essence of 18 spectacular villas, or large country homes, from all over Europe and the United States is captured in the lush photographs and drawings in this beautiful book. Examples range from Hadrian's Villa in ancient Rome to Versailles in France, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in Virginia, and modern villas by Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright, right through to contemporary houses by Gwathmey Siegel in East Hampton, New York, and by Richard Meier in Naples, Florida.

ISBN:

0810939444 (hardcover)
9780810939448 (hardcover)

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Europe.
Historic buildings Europe.
Architecture, Domestic United States.
Historic buildings United States.
Architecture domestique Europe.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Villas Europe.
Villas États-Unis.
Architecture, Domestic.
Historic buildings.
Adelshaus
Bildband
Geschichte
Villa
Europe.
United States.

Added entries:

Schezen, Roberto.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213052
Call No.: NA7560 .R9 2000
Status: Available

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