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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Palladio"”.
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Reflections in Stone: Four Venetian Villas of Andrea Palladio as Expressions of Sixteenth Century Venetian Political History
… of the sixteenth century, the architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) built country homes for influential members of the Venetian nobility. His villas can be interpreted as reflections of a new image of power and harmony that Venice wished to project to the world. The economic and political …
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Coupled model transformations for QoS enabled component-based software design
… solution presented in this thesis introduces the Palladio Component Model for component-based software design with predictable performance attributes. Transformations map instances of this model into implementations resulting in a deterministic relationship between the model and its …
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Il VI libro dei Geoponica: introduzione, traduzione e commento.
… opere degli agronomi latini (Plinio, Columella, Palladio, Varrone, Catone) che trattano il medesimo argomento, ovvero l'intero processo di vinificazione, dalla raccolta delle uve fino alla fruizione del vino. Il VI libro, infatti, è il terzo dei cinque libri che il trattato ha dedicato al vino …
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A study of aspiration and ambition: the Scottish Treasury Commission and its impact upon the development of Scottish country house architecture 1667-1682
… was inspired by the architectural treatises of Palladio and Scamozzi. In attempting to place Scottish domestic architecture in a broader European context, historians have turned their attention to the pattern books of the sixteenth century French illustrator, Jacques Androuct du Cerceau, whose …
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Sweet Briar, 1800-1900: Palladian Plantation House, Italianate Villa, Aesthetic Retreat
… that the double portico motif introduced by Palladio at the Villa Cornaro in the sixteenth century became the fundamental motif of Palladianism in Virginia architecture, generating a line of offspring that proliferated in the eighteenth century and beyond. The Palladian plantation (Sweet …
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Soliciting desire: the ad-man as narrative negotiation between art, desire, and consumer capitalism in twentieth-century novels
… Wakeman’s The Hucksters, Jonathan Dee’s Palladio, and William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition and demonstrates that the ad-man character’s particular constellation of traits provides a rich vehicle for fictional explorations of desire and subjectivity as they are formed in relation to …
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Architectural practice and the planning of minor palaces in Renaissance Italy, 1510-1570
… the Younger, Baldassare Peruzzi and Andrea Palladio) based on their activity as ~esigners of minor palaces and the existence of a substantial amount of plans for this kind of building by them. A second part of this work presents a general view of the working procedures employed by these …
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La «famosa Scala grande a Lumaca, detta di Bramante»
… – e acriticamente – da Peruzzi e Serlio, Palladio deriva l’«inventione» dallo pseudo-prototipo romano. Al dilagare della diatriba sull’«inventione» nei trattati, si affianca l’imposizione della lumaca quale topos architettonico, copiato e/o rielaborato e diffuso. Ma, sebbene la lumaca …
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Abstraction of the Villa
This thesis is an investigation and analysis of a classical typology, the Villa, aided by extensive travel and research. The project begins to identify a new found set of guidelines of proportion, planes, points, and the space in between them to understand the forms in which a Villa can take within …
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John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866): From Jeffersonian Palladianism to Romantic Colonial Revivalism in Antebellum Virginia
John Hartwell Cocke was a Virginia planter and amateur architect whose style evolved from Jeffersonian Classicism to a revival of English Tudor-Stuart or Jacobethan architecture. This dissertation discusses the Cocke family's Elizabethan roots and advances four theses. The first of these theses is …
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Discoveries for a Community
This thesis investigates the design of a new, private residential community on the undeveloped island, Thatch Cay, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Architectural issues explored include the use of load bearing walls versus free standing columns for the primary structure of the individual buildings as a …