Learn how specific temples have influenced numerous classical style works.He is the author of Congressional Resolution 259 honoring the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andrea Palladio, passed unanimously. He was the recipient of the 2010 ICAA Board of Directors Honor Award and the 2017 Virginia AIA Honor Award for significant contributions to the understanding of Virginia's built environment. A primary intent of this presentation is to encourage current practitioners to mine Book IV’s many resources for enriching contemporary classicism.Ĭalder Loth is Senior Architectural Historian for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources and a member of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art Advisory Council. This video lecture offers a glimpse of the riches of Book IV and presents numerous examples of structures that drew inspiration from Palladio’s plates. Book IV’s seductive images have served as a primary design source for many great classical works henceforth. His lavish plates offered for the first time a credible vision of the grandeur and beauty of ancient Roman design. From his study of their ruins Palladio produced ninety-seven pages of elevations, sections, plans, and details depicting his concepts of the temples’ original appearance. The treatise’s Book IV consists of Palladio’s illustrations and descriptions of twenty-five Roman temples. Andrea Palladio’s The Four Book on Architecture is unquestionably the most influential architectural treatise ever written.
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