Abstract
The life and work of Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) and Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978) are separated by 400 years. Architects of the Veneto, despite the passage of time, they share issues such as their training, the link with the place and the way of interpreting the architecture of the past. They conceived their work through drawing, from the initial sketches to their studies of the fragment.
This essay connects Palladio and Scarpa's way of designing the villa (understood as a country retreat or casa di villa) through a selection of their sketches and plans. The process of ideation is analyzed through their drawings with the aim of understanding the similarities between them and locating Palladian themes in the work of the Venetian master.
Palladio and Scarpa intertwine through their approach to drawing, the way they connect the villa with its surroundings and their revisiting of classical themes, reinterpreting the past and bringing it up to date to the present by drawing in two different periods.
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Balboa Domínguez, L., Grijalba Bengoetxea, A., Galván Desvaux, N. (2024). Drawing the Villa in Two Periods. In: Hermida González, L., Xavier, J.P., Sousa, J.P., López-Chao, V. (eds) Graphic Horizons. EGA 2024. Springer Series in Design and Innovation , vol 42. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57583-9_39
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