`The Perfect House: A Journey With the Renaissance Architect Andrea Palladio' by Witold Rybczynski; Scribner.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | October 23, 2002| | Copyright

Andrea Palladio has been dead 400 years, but elements of the Renaissance architect's style continue to proliferate, in the temple-fronted, Tara-like McMansions popping up in America's exurbs, and the status-seeking malls and office buildings surrounding them. Even today's celebrity architects can't claim such influence.

Witold Rybczynski, the prolific writer and University of Pennsylvania professor, was curious to understand why the Palladian style has endured in these faddish times, so he set out for the hinterlands of Venice. Rybczynski was so taken with the ...

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