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16th century

When the House Became a System

Palladian Villa

The symmetrical domed Villa Rotonda near Vicenza.
Villa Almerico Capra, known as La Rotonda, by Andrea Palladio.Quinok · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source record

The Moment

Palladio transformed the country house into a carefully proportioned architectural system.

The Rethink

Architectural principles could travel across cultures and centuries.