The Center for Palladian Studies in America, Inc. (CPSA) engages in research and other activities relating to the work of architect Andrea Palladio. CPSA was founded as a national non-profit membership corporation in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1979. [1]
Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) is often referred to as the most influential architect in history. [2] He designed country villas, urban palaces, churches and bridges in the Veneto region of Italy in the late Renaissance period. Palladio's greatest impact arose from publication ( Venice, 1570) of his treatise entitled I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books on Architecture). [3]
Palladiana: Journal of the Center for Palladian Studies in America, Inc., is published semi-annually. The Center's books include the 3-volume Building by the Book series edited by Mario di Valmarana and Palladio and America: Selected Papers Presented to the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura (1997), [4] edited by Christopher Weeks. Grants have supported publication of Douglas Lewis’ The Drawings of Andrea Palladio (2nd ed., 2000) [5] and Bryan Clark Green’s In Jefferson’s Shadow: The Architecture of Thomas R. Blackburn (2006). [6] Other grants supported creation of the Mario di Valmarana Professorship in the University of Virginia School of Architecture [7] and a National Register Report on Battersea, the important 1768 Palladian-style house in Petersburg, Virginia. [8]
The Center for Palladian Studies in America, Inc. (CPSA) engages in research and other activities relating to the work of architect Andrea Palladio. CPSA was founded as a national non-profit membership corporation in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1979. [1]
Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) is often referred to as the most influential architect in history. [2] He designed country villas, urban palaces, churches and bridges in the Veneto region of Italy in the late Renaissance period. Palladio's greatest impact arose from publication ( Venice, 1570) of his treatise entitled I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books on Architecture). [3]
Palladiana: Journal of the Center for Palladian Studies in America, Inc., is published semi-annually. The Center's books include the 3-volume Building by the Book series edited by Mario di Valmarana and Palladio and America: Selected Papers Presented to the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura (1997), [4] edited by Christopher Weeks. Grants have supported publication of Douglas Lewis’ The Drawings of Andrea Palladio (2nd ed., 2000) [5] and Bryan Clark Green’s In Jefferson’s Shadow: The Architecture of Thomas R. Blackburn (2006). [6] Other grants supported creation of the Mario di Valmarana Professorship in the University of Virginia School of Architecture [7] and a National Register Report on Battersea, the important 1768 Palladian-style house in Petersburg, Virginia. [8]