1st Edition
Vincenzo Scamozzi and the Chorography of Early Modern Architecture
By Ann Marie Borys
Copyright 2014
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
The first English-language overview of the contributions to Renaissance architectural culture of northern Italian architect Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616), this book introduces Anglophone architects and historians to a little-known figure from a period that is recognized as one of the most productive and influential in the Western architectural tradition. Ann Marie Borys presents Vincenzo... Read more
Contents: Preface: chorography, place, and time; ’Citizen of the world’; Geography and chorography: Scamozzi’s theory of place; Mapping the natural world: casa and villa; Mapping the city: palaces and civic buildings; Chorography and cosmography: place and transcendence; ’A scientific habit’; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Ann Marie Borys is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, USA.
'Borys's study offers an important new insight into Scamozzi's work and thus provides us with a richer and more nuanced understanding of the often-too-generic idea of the Palladian style - an approach which was widespread in seventeenth-century Italian and northern European architecture. Historical geographers concerned with landscape, place, and architecture will find much to value in Borys's volume.' Journal of Historical Geography
