New T itle Architecture - Lars Müller Publishers

New Title Architecture
Available August 2012
10.8 × 20.4 cm, 4 ¼ × 8 in
approx. 120 pages
approx. 40 illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-3-03778-299-6, English
EUR 28.– GBP 25.– USD / CAD 36.–
Guido Beltramini
Palladio in Private
Comprehensive biography of famous architect Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio’s villa architecture is still admired for its elegance and harmony, but
little is known about the person behind the buildings. Experienced Palladio researcher
Guido Beltramini has worked meticulously on material from historical documents
about Palladio’s person and life, and assembled a full picture of the architect. Palladio
in Private follows his career, his rise from being the ordinary miller’s son Pietro della
Gondola to become the architect Andrea Palladio. Beltramini does not just explore
Palladio’s origins, his training as a stonemason, and his complex relationship with
powerful clients and scholars, but also his private life: his jovial character, his life as a
married man with fi ve children, and not least his profound conviction that architecture
can and must enrich life. The text is complemented by numerous illustrations.
GUIDO BELTRAMINI, born in 1961, has been director of the Centro Internazionale
di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza since 1991. He has curated
numerous exhibitions at venues including the Venice Biennale, the Royal Academy
of Art, London, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal.
RELATED TITLE
Andrea Palladio – Unbuilt Venice, page 39
Available August 2012
15 × 24 cm, 6 × 9 ½ in
approx. 160 pages
approx. 160 illustrations, hardcover
ISBN 978-3-03778-297-2, English
EUR 40.– GBP 35.– USD / CAD 50.–
Antonio Foscari
La Malcontenta
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1924–1939
1924
I in dal 1909 aveva pubblicato opere di Ezra III Basta la dedica di questo volumetto a Paul
Pound), con un titolo,
Rodocanachi e a Roger Quilter (oltre che alla
II Tumult and Order, che esprime in modo ef- madre, che rimane risolutamente piazzata al
ficace l‘aspirazione di Bertie di dare ordine suo fianco) a testimoniare come la casa di
con la scrittura al tumulto di impulsi emotivi IV Rue du Centre sia ancora, dopo la guerra,
che si accavallano nel suo animo.
il baricentro attorno a cui ruota la vita di Ber-
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Tumult and Order
First publication on the eventful history of the famous Villa Foscari in Venice—
also known as La Malcontenta—during the 1920s and 1930s
La Malcontenta as a meeting point for intellectuals, artists, aristocrats,
and bohemians
With numerous photographs, sketches, and documents
In the
1920s and 1930s, the Villa Foscari in Venice, better known as La Malcontenta,
became a meeting place for intellectuals, artists, and members of the nobility such as
Sergei Diaghilev, Boris Kochno, Serge Lifar, Winston Churchill, Robert Byron, Diana
Cooper, Bruce Chatwin, and Le Corbusier. It was an era of inspiring encounters
between aristocrats, the avant-garde, snobs, and intellectuals that ended when Italy
entered World War
II. Antonio Foscari recounts this lively period in the building’s
history and talks about its then owner, Albert Clinton Landsberger, and his friends
Catherine di Rochegude, Baronesse von Erlanger, and Paul Rodocanachi, who not
only lovingly renovated the villa, but made it such a lively place for the fi rst time.
The text is complemented by numerous photographs dating from this exciting time
that convey an impression of what was happening in the villa in those days.
ANTONIO FOSCARI is an architect and has been a professor of architecture at
the University of Venice since 1971. In 1973, he restored the Villa Malcontenta, built
for his ancestors by Andrea Palladio, and has concentrated his research on buildings
by the great Renaissance architect since that date.
RELATED TITLE
Andrea Palladio – Unbuilt Venice, page 39
New Title Architecture