![]() ![]() In the 1960s and `70s, Rudolf Wittkower’s typological research on Palladio and Colin Rowe’s linking of modern architecture to the Renaissance through a comparison of Le Corbusier and Palladio opened up new areas for research and design to architects. Focusing on twenty villas, the exhibition asks what might still be learned from an architect whose life and work has been exhaustively analyzed by both architects and historians. Palladio Virtuel has been conceived and designed by Eisenman and Yale School of Architecture critic Matthew Roman. More images and information on the exhibition after the break. The exhibition proposes a reading of the buildings that undermines the traditional view of Palladio’s architecture as founded on ideal forms. It represents the culmination of ten years of study of Palladio’s villas by Eisenman, adding an important contribution to the sixteenth-century master’s already robust legacy. The exhibition, which is on view until October 27, presents a groundbreaking new analysis of the work of Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio by Peter Eisenman, renowned New York architect and Charles Gwathmey, Professor in Practice at Yale. The 2012–13 season at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery opened on August 20 with Palladio Virtuel. ![]()
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