The first English-language overview of the contributions to
Renaissance architectural culture of northern Italian architect
Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616), this book introduces Anglophone
architects and historians to a little-known figure from a period
that is recognized as one of the most productive and influential in
the Western architectural tradition. Ann Marie Borys presents
Vincenzo Scamozzi as a traveler and an observer, the first Western
architect to respond to the changing shape of the world in the Age
of Discovery. Pointing out his familiarity with the expansion of
knowledge in both natural history and geography, she highlights
that his truly unique contribution was to make geography and
cartography central to the knowledge of the architect. In so doing,
she argues that he articulated the first fully realized theory of
place. Showing how geographic thinking influences his output, Borys
demonstrates that although Scamozzi's work was conceived within an
established tradition, it was also influenced by major cultural
changes occurring in the late 16th century.
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