The Villa

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IN this remarkable book the eminent . architectural historian James S. Ackerman discusses villa building at selected times and places from ancient Rome to the present century.
Villas are buildings in the country designed for their owners' enjoyment or relaxation. Unlike farmhouses or castles, they usually belong to city dwellers for whom they offer welcome relief from urban life, a notion first represented in Roman literature.
The villa, as an architectural type, is a focus for examining not only the relationship between urban and rural life but that between building and the natural environment, and for considering the various effects of social, economic and political change on architectural design. Professor Ackerman illuminates such topics as ancient Roman villas, the early villas of the Medici, Palladianism in England, and the modern villas of Wright and Le Corbusier.
The Villa offers both an architectural history and the history of an idea, and is a richly illustrated and... Tovább

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IN this remarkable book the eminent . architectural historian James S. Ackerman discusses villa building at selected times and places from ancient Rome to the present century.
Villas are buildings in the country designed for their owners' enjoyment or relaxation. Unlike farmhouses or castles, they usually belong to city dwellers for whom they offer welcome relief from urban life, a notion first represented in Roman literature.
The villa, as an architectural type, is a focus for examining not only the relationship between urban and rural life but that between building and the natural environment, and for considering the various effects of social, economic and political change on architectural design. Professor Ackerman illuminates such topics as ancient Roman villas, the early villas of the Medici, Palladianism in England, and the modern villas of Wright and Le Corbusier.
The Villa offers both an architectural history and the history of an idea, and is a richly illustrated and illuminating study of one of the most attractive tjrpes of dwelling ever conceived.
'Ackerman's offer to guide us through two millennia ofthe history ofthe villa is an attractive one a highly factual, well-illustrated account valuable contemporary source material' Apollo
'Has a lucidity and elegance which mirrors the design ofthe villas themselves' The Antique Collector
'A considerable range of periods and places generously illustrated' The Burlington Magazine
'Professor Ackerman makes splendid use of literary as well as architectural source material. The result is a vivid book, beautiful and serious' Financial Times
'To read this stimulating book is to meet an erudite scholar'
The New York Review of Books
'Bursting with ideas' The World of Interiors Vissza