The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 34) - Hardcover

Ackerman, James S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691099111 ISBN 13: 9780691099118

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1990

Synopsis

The eminent architectural historian James Ackerman, author of classic studies on Palladio and Michelangelo, discusses villa building in Western countries at various times and places from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. Ackerman uses the phenomenon of the "country place" as a focus for examining not only the relationship between urban and rural life but also that between building and natural environment and between social, cultural, economic, and political forces and architectural design.

About this title

About the Author:

James S. Ackerman is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University. He has been Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University, editor of The Art Bulletin, and a Fellow and Trustee of the American Academy in Rome.

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0691099111
• ISBN 13: 9780691099118
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304