“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.

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 their immutability within the discipline, uncovering latent potentials for the production of new architecture.

“Andrea Palladio in Los Angeles” poises the most influential Classical architect against what is arguably the epicenter of contemporary Western culture; examining Los Angeles’ ecology, urbanization, and infrastructure, through Palladian proportions, typologies, and ideologies. By examining one through the guise of another, our inaugural issue deals with these two historically distant but thematically intimate topics in search of a richer reading of both. The first monograph features the voices of nine emerging architects and authors from around the world, with contributions by Maria Letizia Garizoli, Patrick Herron, Ali Karimi, Daniela Leon, Raffy Mardirossian, Paul Matevosyan, Meaghan Murray, Benzion Rodman and Gabriel Yeganyan.

The Kickstarter campaign for “Andrea Palladio in Los Angeles”, which launched on December 12th, 2018, reached its goal of $6,000 within the first week. With only 2 days remaining, supporters still have an opportunity to preorder a copy before the campaign ends on January 11th.