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The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses

English

By (author): James S. Ackerman

A classic account of the villafrom ancient Rome to the twentieth centuryby the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture (Architects Newspaper)

In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Ackerman uses the phenomenon of the country place as a focus for examining the relationships between urban and rural life, between building and the natural environment, and between architectural design and social, cultural, economic, and political forces. The villa, he reminds us, accommodates a fantasy which is impervious to reality. As city dwellers idealized country life, the villa, unlike the farmhouse, became associated with pleasure and asserted its modernity and status as a product of the architects imagination.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 203 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Aug 2023
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780691252315

About James S. Ackerman

James S. Ackerman (19192016) was the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University. His many books include The Architecture of Michelangelo Palladio and Palladios Villas.

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