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A classic account of the villaâ¿from ancient Rome to the twentieth centuryâ¿by âthe preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architectureâ? (Architectâ¿s Newspaper)In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Ackerman uses the phenomenon of the âcountry placeâ? as a focus for examining the relationships between…mehr

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A classic account of the villaâ¿from ancient Rome to the twentieth centuryâ¿by âthe preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architectureâ? (Architectâ¿s Newspaper)In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Ackerman uses the phenomenon of the âcountry placeâ? as a focus for examining the relationships between urban and rural life, between building and the natural environment, and between architectural design and social, cultural, economic, and political forces. âThe villa,â? he reminds us, âaccommodates a fantasy which is impervious to reality.â? As city dwellers idealized country life, the villa, unlike the farmhouse, became associated with pleasure and asserted its modernity and status as a product of the architectâ¿s imagination.
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James S. Ackerman (1919-2016) was the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University. His many books include The Architecture of Michelangelo, Palladio, and Palladio's Villas.