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"New Palladians" showcases how, at the outset of the 21st century, classical and vernacular traditions are flourishing as a modern phenomena, practiced by a wide spectrum of architectural firms, scholars, students, universities and institutions. The 'New Palladians' are dedicated to the highest standards of craftsmanship and design, and to the very best ecological building and sustainable urbanism. The reference to Palladio is to engage him as a model of professional integrity and building expertise that encompasses the dimensions and dialectics of cities, the countryside and nature. The efficient didactic nature of Palladio's work and its contextual adaptability, has favoured the flourishing of Palladian architecture throughout the world. This book features the latest architectural and urban projects from forty-eight of the most important classical architects in the world today.
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Alireza Sagharchi RIBA, FRSA is an internationally renowned architect and is the Principal of Stanhope Gate Architecture + Urban Design based in London. Lucien Steil taught as a visiting professor at many institutions around the world.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The "New Palladians" of the title of this ravishingly illustrated book are but the latest group of architects to be drawn under the spell of the sixteenth century Venetian architect, Andrea Palladio. New Palladians is timely and immediate. It effortlessly makes the case that the forty eight current architectural practices from ten different countries that it shows have enough in common to suggest a distinct tendency. This is barely a movement, still less a school; it is more a natural response to the needs of contemporary architecture and the people its serves. This new Palladianism shows itself able to be a necessary supplanting of Modernism not simply a reaction to that failed and failing movement.
The authors in their keynote text of this book, Modernity and Sustainability for the 21st Century, are not afraid to be polemical. Their criticisms of Modernism centre on its tendency to fragmentation and dislocation - not just in its architectural form but also in the pervasive influence it has on society and the environment at large.
The authors make the case that the New Palladians have an antidote to Modernism's failings. Steil writes: "New Palladians can make a difference, by establishing a very firm, very uncompromising strategy on materials, on technologies and on issues of environment" and: "New Palladians refers to a moral category of people who very profoundly, actively do something to regenerate the meaning of architecture in the context of society, politics, landscape and durable development. ... Palladio is not at all their cult figure; rather he is a master, a colleague, and a tangible and real role model."
New Palladians wholly achieves a stated goal of wresting the claim on the word modernity from Modernist architects. In doing so it establishes these architects as some of the most important currently practising. New Palladians is now the essential up to date guide to a primary aspect of currently practised traditional architecture.
For more information go to Traditional Architecture Group website
The authors in their keynote text of this book, Modernity and Sustainability for the 21st Century, are not afraid to be polemical. Their criticisms of Modernism centre on its tendency to fragmentation and dislocation - not just in its architectural form but also in the pervasive influence it has on society and the environment at large.
The authors make the case that the New Palladians have an antidote to Modernism's failings. Steil writes: "New Palladians can make a difference, by establishing a very firm, very uncompromising strategy on materials, on technologies and on issues of environment" and: "New Palladians refers to a moral category of people who very profoundly, actively do something to regenerate the meaning of architecture in the context of society, politics, landscape and durable development. ... Palladio is not at all their cult figure; rather he is a master, a colleague, and a tangible and real role model."
New Palladians wholly achieves a stated goal of wresting the claim on the word modernity from Modernist architects. In doing so it establishes these architects as some of the most important currently practising. New Palladians is now the essential up to date guide to a primary aspect of currently practised traditional architecture.
For more information go to Traditional Architecture Group website
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Palladianism is demonstrably something beautiful and practical, as one of the greatest schools in the history of architecture. The recent quincentenary of Andrea Palladio's birth makes an appraisal of the current state of the classical movement especially apropos. This work, with its widely international scope, examines tradition on all levels, from urbanism to civic buildings and houses.
The book itself is of the highest quality featuring beautiful images, critical texts by important architects and theorists, and will make a handsome addition to the library of all lovers of architecture.
Duncan G. Stroik,
Associate Professor Notre Dame School of Architecture.
The book itself is of the highest quality featuring beautiful images, critical texts by important architects and theorists, and will make a handsome addition to the library of all lovers of architecture.
Duncan G. Stroik,
Associate Professor Notre Dame School of Architecture.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A Beautiful Appraisal of the State of Classical Architecture
14 July 2010
Format:Hardcover
Palladianism is demonstrably something beautiful and practical, as one of the greatest schools in the history of architecture. The recent quincentenary of Andrea Palladio's birth makes an appraisal of the current state of the classical movement especially apropos. This work, with its widely international scope, examines tradition on all levels, from urbanism to civic buildings and houses.
The book itself is of the highest quality featuring beautiful images, critical texts by important architects and theorists, and will make a handsome addition to the library of all lovers of architecture.
The book itself is of the highest quality featuring beautiful images, critical texts by important architects and theorists, and will make a handsome addition to the library of all lovers of architecture.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
EXCELLENT DOCUMENT
2 July 2010
Format:Hardcover
The excellent work and the number of outstanding architects and planners placed in this beautiful document makes it unprecedented and a real testament to the "new avant-garde". This is a must buy for students and design professionals (Jaime Correa, Director, Master in Urban Design, School of Architecture, University of Miami and author of the controversial books: SEVEN RECIPES FOR THE NEW URBANISM and SELF-SUFFICIENT URBANISM).
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
The next book to read after the Quattro Libri....
8 Feb 2011
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Most of today's books ostensibly about architecture deal only with the creation of spectacle. This wonderful book is different; it contains over 150 works of contemporary traditional architecture as example, inspiration and reminder of the beauty that results from the consideration of space, scale, light, pattern, proportion, symmetry and other traditional aesthetic guides in the making of architecture. If you're lucky, this book will even remind you of why you became an architect in the first place.
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