Architecture CodeX #48 Villa Capra by Andrea Palladio

A PERFECT BUILDING: Architecture Codex looks at the Renaissance Villa by one of the greatest architects who ever lived and explores the concept of perfection in architecture.

#palladio #molinelli #architecture #architecturedesign #vincenza #villacapra #villarotundo

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0:23 skip intro; Is There a Perfect Building?
1:32 Renaissance

[timothyjudd]

These are very inspiring talks. Thank you!

[joaquinloustaueisele]

Such great videos! Greetings from Argentina! Keep it on

[cherylnagy]

an artist is ALWAYS subordinate to his/her patron

[dariagomezgane]

Very interesting documentary, thanks for the explanations. In my opinion, after Wittkover that states root two to be the only irrational number of relevance in renaissance architectural theory, and after March's " architectonics of humanism", 1998, the rectangles the rotunda design is based on are root two rectangles, and not golden section rectangles...see:" Pythagorean Palladio: Palladio proportionality patterns decoded?" In SAHANZ 2021...

[zotyhd]

wouldn't shortening the dome have been a flaw?

[ar]

I thought "palladian" was because of the Paladino in Rome, the place where the emperors had their palaces.

[ronwalker]

LOOK AT THE PALLADIO DRAWINGS AND COMPARE WITH PHOTOS OF THE BUILDING. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOME CHANGES MADE ON THE BUILDING SIGHT BY ARTISTIC LISCENCE.

[fuzzyduck]

They don't even make minature buildings like this no more lol. They just make soulless glass boxes...

[miketackabery]

Yes the building looks perfect, and it's form and forms are perfect, but it's also a deeply flawed work. A house must be lived in, but the attic story here has such low ceilings that those rooms were never livable. Of all Palladian villas this has always been known to be the most perfect and beautiful, but also the most problematic.

Great architecture can be a messy business.

[martymountebank]

Vitruvius never built a single building.