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The Villa : Form and Ideology of Country Houses

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The architectural historian James Ackerman discusses villas from ancient Rome to 20th-century France and America.

Unlike farmhouses, castles or manors, villas usually belong to city dwellers.

The villa provides a focus for examining not only the relationship between urban and rural life, but also that between building and the environment, and between the effects of social, economic and political change on architectural design.

The author illuminates villas of all kinds in a study of one of the most attractive types of dwelling ever conceived.

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Thames & Hudson Ltd
0500277443 / 9780500277447
Paperback
728.809
24/04/1995
United Kingdom
English
304p. : ill.
26 cm
general /undergraduate Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: 1990.