Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio, one of the most influential architects [of renaissance] was born in Padua on Nov.30, 1508 and died in Vicenza on Aug.19, 1580. In 1521 he had an apprentice contract at a local stone cutter for a period of six years however after three years he moved to Vicenza and entered the association of mason and stone cutters. Around 1538 he met Gian Giorgio Trissino [while working on Villa Cricoli]; he saw the capability in Palladio and educated him. His architectural career began with earlier independent works such as Villa Godi (1538-1542) and continued with multiple villas including the more celebrated Rotonda. In addition, he visited Rome several times and wrote “Le antichità di Roma” a guidebook to Rome in 1554 (Andrea Palladio,…

Villa Rotonda is placed at the top of a hill in northern Italy. It is designed by Andrea Palladio and is one of the most recognizable buildings of the Renaissance. This building is also designed as a place for entertainment and is close to Vicenza. The building is unique because it does not only have one, but four facades. The design is symmetrical; a square plan in the middle and four porticos on each of the façades. Each of the porticos had pediments and they were each supported by six…

Casa Malaparte was designed by Architect Adalberto Libera. It is located at 0073 Capri Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy which was designed for client, Curzio Malaparte. The structure contains spaces that are similar in shape and size of most homes. The rooms are squaredm but what makes the structure have an interesting circulation are the stepped levels of each floor. The Villa has stairs as wide as the whole structure which leads to the terrace. These stairs were designed to reduce vertigo…

Palladio was often celebrated as an architect of economy as he was cleverly able to achieve the aesthetic which appeased his upper class patrons by selectively using luxurious materials. In the case of Villa Barbaro, built of rough brickwork coated with stucco, this allowed for the simulation of marble without the use of the sumptuous stone (Ackerman & Massar, 1974). Palladio was able to describe the elements which determine the usability of certain prevalent materials in his Four Books of…

In Shea, the taxpayers (a corporation and two partnerships related through common ownership, or for our purposes, “Shea”) were in the home development business in Arizona, California and Colorado. Shea wasn’t in the habit of throwing up a spec home and calling it a day; rather, it preferred to develop planned communities ranging from 100 to 1,000 homes. The builders emphasized the features and lifestyle of the planned communities to potential buyers, advertising their developments with cliché,…

Dworkin, 1981; Dworkin and MacKinnon, 1988; Mackinnon, 1989) since 1980s have overwhelmingly stressed on criticising of pornography as a form of oppression to women. By examining the ‘effects’ of pornography on its male consumers, radical feminists have frequently amplified that negative effects, namely violence, sex addiction, intimidation, child abuse, and women as sexually objectified by men, of pornography have facilitated men for reinforcing the notions of patriarchy and masculinity. In…

Sylvia Plath; Along with authors such as Virginia Woolf, Simone de Bauvoir and Marguerite Duras, is one of the biggest female authors of 20th century. The Bell Jar shares more characteristics with Sylvia Plath’s life than just a semi-autobiographical novel. The main character of the book, Esther travels to New York to work as an intern in a fashion magazine, just like Sylvia Plath did. They are both poets, who lost their fathers at the age of 8 and both Esther and Sylvia Plath slowly falls into…

Andreas Vesalius discovered modern day human anatomy that we use today to help us with surgeries, medical school, etc.. Vesalius discoveries have shaped our medical school to be the way it is today. His scientific reasoning has had an immense impact on the way we do things today. In this paper I will be discussing Andreas’ background/personal information, his college adventures, his inspirations, what was known before his discoveries, and other scientists alive at his time. Andreas Vesalius…

The story that follows is red with the crimson life of so many humans long held in the arms of death. It is black with the evil of one inhuman man. And it is white with the purity of a soul untainted by evil or blood. This is Loreno’s story. The darkness enveloped him as he stepped out of the tall, regal office building. It was a late day at the office. He could never tell his wife why he was late. That would never do. No. She would have to remain in the dark. The man started to walk to his…

The centralized theme of the novel is the evil of mankind. In the novel, evil is an entity that can possess people against their will – like a spirit. Although that may sound like the run-of-the-mill Webster’s definition of evil, there is a difference, which is that in the novel, evil is personified. The novel uses its events to show how evil works in the real world, in a slightly mellow dramatic, but realistic way. Also, evil in this novel is known as Coyote, and this is because evil is being…