Rewriting Classicism

In this section you find a large selection of the drawings, mostly plans and sections, that Palladio collected in the Second Book, with the aim to offer inspirational samples and repeatable models. In his words, the book "contains drawings of many houses designed by Palladio himself inside and outside town, and drawings of the old houses of Greeks and Romans." Drawings are done with the metric scale, all measures are done with the Vicentin feet, and often sections are described in words, with indication of the hight of the rooms and of the architectural character of the ceiling: domed, vaulted, flat.