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Four Books of Archiculture
Four Books of Archiculture
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Four Books of Archiculture
Philadelphia, PA, United States
In the last several years we have found ourselves immersed in a number of projects in rural areas of Central Pennsylvania. There we had to contend with local vernacular typologies – such as bank barns, farm houses, grain dryers, scare crows and vast quantities of vinyl siding – and the local long-established tradition of developer construction that is founded on very pragmatic (and therefore rigid) approach to building, where the aesthetics is a tertiary concern, and often a side effect of builder’s pragmatism.
We attempted to rethink the local construction methodologies and distill them into a new aesthetic language. This process of deriving a modern architectural discourse from the vernacular is similar to the transformation of the rural farm typologies of Veneto into private villas in the 16th century, as was presented in Quattro Libri d’Architettura by Andrea Palladio. The same way that Palladio’s Four Books became the catalogue of local agricultural form infused with the surveys of miscellaneous details from roman antiquity, we admired pre-established agrarian typologies and the material quantity- and cost-driven local architectural detailing. Palladio’s frequent allusions to Vitruvius as the sources of ultimate truth were in this case substituted to referencing the forces of the market and ever-potent “curb appeal.”
In 2008, they year of Palladio’s 500th anniversary, we collected our nearly-Palladian experience into a visual treatise form. Taking clue from Palladio’s Quattro Libri in separation of content (Book I – architectural orders, wall types, details, site selection; Book II – private residences & housing; Book III – bridges, fountains, site planning, miscellaneous typologies; Book IV – places of public assembly) and presentation technique (wood cut – the most common way of dissemination drawings in Palladio’s times, but produced from wood blocks delineated in AutoCAD and laser-engraved – thus also using the most common commercial architecture tools of today) emerged The Four Books of Agriculture, Discovering Palladio in Central PA and Beyond. This edition presents built work as well as speculative projects, musings, directions, guidance, reflections and an occasional enlightened vision of things to come.
We attempted to rethink the local construction methodologies and distill them into a new aesthetic language. This process of deriving a modern architectural discourse from the vernacular is similar to the transformation of the rural farm typologies of Veneto into private villas in the 16th century, as was presented in Quattro Libri d’Architettura by Andrea Palladio. The same way that Palladio’s Four Books became the catalogue of local agricultural form infused with the surveys of miscellaneous details from roman antiquity, we admired pre-established agrarian typologies and the material quantity- and cost-driven local architectural detailing. Palladio’s frequent allusions to Vitruvius as the sources of ultimate truth were in this case substituted to referencing the forces of the market and ever-potent “curb appeal.”
In 2008, they year of Palladio’s 500th anniversary, we collected our nearly-Palladian experience into a visual treatise form. Taking clue from Palladio’s Quattro Libri in separation of content (Book I – architectural orders, wall types, details, site selection; Book II – private residences & housing; Book III – bridges, fountains, site planning, miscellaneous typologies; Book IV – places of public assembly) and presentation technique (wood cut – the most common way of dissemination drawings in Palladio’s times, but produced from wood blocks delineated in AutoCAD and laser-engraved – thus also using the most common commercial architecture tools of today) emerged The Four Books of Agriculture, Discovering Palladio in Central PA and Beyond. This edition presents built work as well as speculative projects, musings, directions, guidance, reflections and an occasional enlightened vision of things to come.
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