The Villa : : Form and Ideology of Country Houses / / James S. Ackerman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Ackerman, James S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ; 35
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 213 b/w illus.

A classic account of the villa—from ancient Rome to the twentieth century—by “the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture” (Architect’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 “country place” 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. “The villa,” he reminds us, “accommodates a fantasy which is impervious to reality.” 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 architect’s imagination.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 The Typology of the Villa -- 2 The Ancient Roman Villa -- 3 The Early Villas of the Medici -- 4 Palladio's Villas and their Predecessors -- 5 The Image of Country Life in Sixteenth-Centilry Villa Books -- Appendix The Advantages of Villa Life -- 6 The Palladian Villa in England -- 7 The Landscape Garden -- 8 Thomas Jefferson -- 9 The Picturesque -- 10 Andrew Jackson Downing and the American Romantic Villa -- 11 The Modern Villa: Wright and Le Corbusier -- Postscript -- Notes -- Sources of Illustrations -- Index