I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura Essays

Andrea Palladio was an Italian architect of 16th-century northern Italy and is largely considered to be the greatest architect since that time. Palladio’s teachings, summarized in I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura or The Four Books of Architecture gained him widespread recognition and today, he is considered to be the most influential individual in the history of Western architecture. Palladio’s career began in mis-16th-century when he was hired by Gian Giorgio Trissino, a Humanist poet and scholar

In its architecture, Pennsylvania Hospital follows closely the lines of the important buildings erected during our Colonial period. Founded by Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond in 1751, Pennsylvania Hospital is the first hospital in the United States, and was actually present in America long before the colonies had declared their independence. Designed mainly by a master-builder of the time, Samuel Rhoads, a Carpenters’ Company member, the architecture gets much of its inspiration from the “Hospital

palaces and villas he designed, along with his treatise made him one of the most influential figures in Western architecture. Some of his most influential works are the Villa Rotonda, originally known as Villa Capra, and his treatise “I Quattro libri dell’architettura”, which translates to “The Four Books of Architecture.” Andrea Gondola was apprenticed to a sculptor in Padua until the age of sixteen, when he moved to nearby Vicenza where he enrolled in the guild of the bricklayers and stonemasons

Inigo Jones was an Architect unlike any other in his time. He was the first English classic Architect in England under the ruling of James I and Charles I. He introduced the architecture of Ancient Rome to England in 1573-1652, which encompassed many characteristics, but mainly he introduced the idea of Vitruvius symmetry. Many historians and architects claim Inigo Jones as the father of Palladianism because of the influence his architecture had on Palladio in the later years. Unlike other architects