TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HUCKABEE COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
ARCH 1311 Design, Environment and Society

Lecture 06, OUTLINE

ANDREA PALLADIO Architectural Theory III
Urs Peter "Upe" Flueckiger

September 16, 2024

Key Personnel
Andrea Palladio 1508-1580 also known as Andrea di Pietro Della Gondola

Key Books
I QuattroLibri dell'Architettura The four books of Architecture
(1570, The Four Books of Architecture Age 62)

Key Buildings/Places/Words
Theoretical Work:
I quattro libri dell'architettura 
(The Four Books of Architecture 1570)

Book I: 
Instruction of materials, the construction of a house from the foundation to the roof; general prescriptions, valid for both public and private building; prescriptions for the five Orders.

Book II: 
The dwelling-house in town and country (the villa

Book III:

Streets, bridges, squares and basilicas.

Book IV: 
Antique Temples, in Rome, Italy and outside Italy

Built Architectural Works:
Villa Godi (for Girolamo, Pietro and Marcantonio Godi),(1537-1542: Age 27-34)
Villa Pisani (for Vettore, Marco and Daniele Pisani), (1542 Age 34)
Villa Emo (for Leonardo Emo), (1558, Age 50)
Villa Foscari called La Malcontenta (1559, Age 51)
Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, (1565 Age 57 compl. after his death by Scamozzi)

“You have to see these buildings with your own eyes to realize how good they are.”

“No reproductions of Palladio’s designs give adequate idea of the harmony of their dimensions; they must be seen in their actual perspective.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe