The Villa
Form and Ideology of Country Houses
Published on 28. February 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-691-00295-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
To read this stimulating book is to meet an erudite scholar who has thought a great deal about the subject, and is willing to entertain, as well as inform, to patiently explain, as well as to make pronouncements. -- Witold Rybczynski The New York Review of Books Among the several histories of the country house published in 1990 this is easily the best... Mr. Ackerman rightly places Palladio as the pivotal figure in this thoughtful, thought-provoking study of the villa from ancient Rome to the early 20th-century houses of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. -- Martin Filler The New York Times Book ReviewMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
213 illustrations, including 71 drawings
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 191 mm
Weight
936 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-00295-8 (9780691002958)
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10/2023
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Person
James S. Ackerman (1919-2016) was the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University, editor of the Art Bulletin, and a fellow and trustee of the American Academy in Rome.