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95 — Andrea Palladio 5 — Quattro Libri

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The Ideal of Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Has to Represent the People That Live in It

I think vitruvius made them a bit grand to start with, and then poladio makes them very grand. The ideal building for paladio is like, you get one brick out of it, and you can alga rhythmically determine the rest of the building. That's e. Which is just not what pliny's descriptionis like. I might read a quick quote along there cion. But the architect ought above all to observe that, as vetruvius says in the first and sixth book, for great men, and particularly those in a republic, the houses are required with lodges and spacious halls. So the architecture has a kind of responsibility to the

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