65Pink origami unicorn in aquarium cube
By: Me
Louis Villeminot
Delineator Viollet-le-Duc
Architect Design for right half of Overdoor
Pencil on paper, Circa 1880s 6 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches
Louis Villeminot
Delineator Viollet-le-Duc
Architect Sketches for figurative table support and details
Pen and Ink on tracing paper, Circa 1880s 17 x 11 inches
A Brasileira
Braga, Portugal
Peacock design in chalk
By: Me
Dr. Bayard candies
Elevation and Section for a Catafalque for the Dauphin of France, d. 1711
Workshop of Giuseppe Galli Bibiena
(Italian, Parma 1696–1756 Berlin)
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (workshop of) - Sketch for a Catafalque for Louis,
Grand Dauphin (c. 1711). Detail.
(via drawingdetail)
Andrea Palladio (30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) - Villa Rotonda - Layout
Palladio, it is easy to argue, is the most important and influential architect of all time. His work was greatly based around symmetry and balance between forms; this man is the reason almost all of our grand buildings from the White House to the British Museum look like Greco-Roman Temples. An important element in the history of world architecture.
Villa Foscari - Andrea Palladio - Study drawings
The wall at the Malcontenta forms the traditional solid pierced by vertical openings, with the central emphasis in the pediment; and the outer ones have the windows placed towards the extremities of the façade, a device which seems to reinforce the cubic quality of the block. The double bay in the middle is expressed by a single door, or in the rear elevation by a “Roman baths” motif, and carries the upper pediments of the roof. Horizontally the wall falls into three main divisions: base; piano nobile, corresponding to the ionic order of the portico, terminated by a flattened entablature; and a superimposed attic with cornice. The base plays the part of a projecting, consistently supporting solid, upon which the house rests; but while the attic and piano nobile are rusticated, the base is treated as a plain surface. A feeling of even greater weight carried here is achieved by this highly emotional inversion of the usual order.
(excerpt from “The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa” by Colin Rowe)
(Source: karltobinthesis)
