91 — Andrea Palladio 1 — The Most Imitated Architect in History
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Peladio es r weird, proportionale. It seems so starty, modern. Heg ah, at last, like michael angelo. He's doing something transgressive. This seems really weird. And most importantly, it is symmetrical from the front. Yes. What he's interested in more than anything is axial symmetry when looking at the elevations perpendicular, like looking straight on to things. Although his buildings are, when you experience they're very three dimensional and they work wonderfully in very three dimensional ways. Ye, that sounds very banalut well, no. I mean, being able to really handle three dimensions is surprisingly unusual. Thereare many people to
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