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PALLADIO ACHITECTURE & DECOR
PALLADIO’S TIME AND THE BEAUTY OF AN ARCHITECTURE STILL COPIED TODAY,
(OFTEN QUITE BADLY).
MID-CENTURY MODERN AND THE
SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT
The Sarasota School of Architecture, sometimes called "Sarasota Modern," is a style
of post-war modernist architecture that grew on Florida's Central West Coast between
1941 and 1966. Several important buildings are still around Sarasota, although too
many were either “remodeled” beyond recognition or were demolished. The architecture
was tuned to the local climate and landscape with sunshades, innovative ventilation
systems, sliding glass doors, and jalousie windows, a simplicity of lines, an economy
of means and materials.
Paul Rudolph, Bert Brosmith, Ralph Twitchell, Victor Lundy,
Tim Seibert, Jack West, Philip Hiss, Gene Leedy and Mark Hampton were some of style's
main creators. Rudolph became probably the most well known, working in New York as
well as Hong Kong. He was quite famous for his Art & Architectural Building at Yale.
That building was renovated by Charles Gwathmey while the Riverview High School buildings
were demolished without any regards for their advanced green architecture concepts
and, if we do talk about environmental architecture, the way the school buildings
were destroyed was in no ways, manners or forms, a good thing for the environment.
Ironically, the school had been nominated to be included in the list of America's
Most Endangered Places, but time was too short for this to happen. Luckily, within
Sarasota there are still a number of houses, schools, churches and public buildings,
especially on the island of Lido Key, where Rudolph's Umbrella House (one of my favorite)
rests protected next to other Sarasota Modern houses. A bank by Jack West, who designed
the City Hall building, was recently saved from being replaced by another atrocious
pharmacy at a crossing where two other pharmacies already stand. I bet Sarasota does
need more pharmacies.
A LOOK INTO AN INFLUENTIAL ARCHITECTURAL STYLE, BORN IN FLORIDA OUT OF THE BAUHAUS, FLW AND LE CORBUSIER’S IDEAS AND AT THE FURNITURE THAT FIT SO WELL WITH THE ARCHITECTURE.
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Palladio was born Andrea di Pietro della Gondola in Padua in 1508, a city part of the Venice Republic. In this he is different from all the architects who influenced him. They were all from central Italy, Tuscany, and all were either painters, like Raphael, Giulio Romano, Peruzzi or Bramante or sculptors like Sansovino or Michelangelo. At age sixteen he moved to Vicenza to become an apprentice in Pedemuro, a important workshop of stonecutters and masons.
In the mid 1530s, aged thirty, Andrea met on a job site the Count Giangiorgio Trissino who recognized the potential talent existing in the young man. He introduced him to the arts, science and classical literature and invited him on several visits to Rome. Trissino was the one who gave Andrea his name by which he is known today: Palladio, a reference to the Greek goddess of wisdom: Pallas Athene.
Palladio studied and rediscovered classical Roman principles and later will share his knowledge in many books, including his major work, I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, in which his gives most of his "recipes" on how to built like him.
His influence was far reaching first in Britain with Inigo Jones, Chistpher Wren Richard Boyle and William Kent. His influence was also important in the US, with Thomas Jefferson a great supporter of Paladian style. The Capitol building in DC is based on Palladio's style.
Obviously, a large number of people copying Palladio's style in Florida didn't bother to read "the Four Books of Architecture," although available for about $15 to $60 on many bookstores on the web. The same can be said about Vitruvius's book "De architectura" known in the US as the Ten Books of Architecture . Palladio said of Vitruvius: "I elected as my master and guide Vitruvius, who is the only ancient writer on this art."
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