Palladio
by James S. Ackerman
Penguin Books, 1976 (2nd edition)

Paperback | 5 x 7 inches | 196 pages | 96 illustrations | English | ISBN: 0140208453 | $6.95

BACK COVER DESCRIPTION:
Palladio is the most imitated architect in history. His buildings have been copied all over the Western world ? from Leningrad to Philadelphia ? and his ideas on proportion are still current nearly four hundred years after his death. In this, the first full account of his career to be published in English, Professor James Ackerman investigates the reasons for his enormous and enduring success. He presents him in his historical setting but is constantly alert to his relevance for us today.
The Architect and Society ? The aim of this series, specially written for Penguin Books, is to present the great architects of the world in their social and cultural environments. James S. Ackerman was born in San Francisco in 1919 and studied at Yale and New York University. Professor Ackerman lived several years in Italy, beginning with service during [World War II], and [was] the author of many studies on Italian architecture, including The Architecture of Michelangelo (1961), which received the Morey and Hitchcock awards.
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