The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses - Hardcover

James S. Ackerman

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9780500341117: The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses

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ISBN 10: 0500341117 ISBN 13: 9780500341117

Publisher: Thames and Hudson, 1990

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The architectural historian James Ackerman discusses villas from ancient Rome to 20th-century France and America. Unlike farmhouses, castles or manors, villas usually belong to city dwellers. The villa provides a focus for examining not only the relationship between urban and rural life, but also that between building and the environment, and between the effects of social, economic and political change on architectural design. The author illuminates villas of all kinds in a study of one of the most attractive types of dwelling ever conceived.

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"To read this stimulating book is to meet an erudite scholar who has thought a great deal about the subject, and is willing to entertain, as well as inform, to patiently explain, as well as to make pronouncements."--Witold Rybczynski, The New York Review of Books

"Among the several histories of the country house published in 1990 this is easily the best. . . . Mr. Ackerman rightly places Palladio as the pivotal figure in this thoughtful, thought-provoking study of the villa from ancient Rome to the early 20th-century houses of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier."--Martin Filler, The New York Times Book Review

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