Andrea Palladio Comes to Los Angeles

2019-01-09T18:18:00-05:00

“Andrea Palladio in Los Angeles” is the first of a ten monograph series that pairs seminal architects with contemporary cities. Examining Los Angeles through the work of Andrea Palladio, the publication captures the city through a collection of fictional Palladian projects and accompanying critical essays.

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PAX Monographs approaches the the architectural monograph as a critical medium, rethinking it from a retrospective exercise into a projective assertion. Engaging history as a generative source rather than a distant reference, the series places past architects in present day cities in which they have never built before.

Through the lens of history, the publication actively engages our current contexts. In doing so, the publication translates seminal work in unintended contexts, questioning the critical relationship shared between architecture and its cultural setting. PAX Monographs revisits seemingly definitive bodies of knowledge to challenge thei...

A Musuem for Palladio in a Palladio

2012-11-23T17:58:00-05:00

The courtyard of the Palazzo Barbarano in Vicenza. A mulberry tree symbolizes the silk industry, once the source of much of the city’s wealth.

Last month Roderick Morris visited the Palazzo Barbarano, in Vicenza Italy. Although the Palazzo Barbarano has been the home of the International Center for Architectural Studies, or CISA, since 1958, it is now also home to a newly opened Palladio Museum. Timed to the opening of the museum, Guido Beltramini, the curator of the new museum has also published a short but invaluable account of the architect’s life, 'The Private Palladio'.

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Andrea Palladio Comes to Los Angeles

A Musuem for Palladio in a Palladio