Film on the Architecture of Andrea Palladio, 1508-80, and His Influence in the U.S.

FAIN: EH-*1410-78

President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
James S. Ackerman (Project Director: May 1978 to October 1990)

To review the work of the most influential architect of the last 500 years and to show Palladios influence on American architecture from the 18th Century to the present.

A 40-minute film to review the work of Andrea Palladio by surveying his buildings in Italy and by showing, with many U.S. examples, how and why he became a leading model of American architecture in Jefferson's time and remains so today.