Are modern architects reimagining Mediterranean villas?
While the classic image of the Mediterranean villa has devolved into a grab-bag of styles, contemporary architects have reimagined these homes. Architects:
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What is the architecture of the Villa?
In opposite the villa opens up towards the back yard to maximize the views of the lagoon. The architecture of the villa consists mainly of one major wrap shaping the volumes holding in between black metal and glass. Walls and ceilings filter the light through perforated zones designed to create different moods throughout the day.
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What is the circular villa?
The CIRCULAR VILLA is a conceptual design of a summer house situated within a cliff recess. The key to this project was to design the house whose shape integrates into the structure of the rocky landscape. The white and abstract volume of the design fits within the cliff niche simultaneously does not create a direct geometrical connection.
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What makes modern Mediterranean villas unique?
The following collection of modern Mediterranean villas do not mimic the classicist symbols normally found in these homes, but rather use a mixture of local stone materials and clean white surfaces inspired by Greco-Roman platonic ideals to offer up a forward-thinking yet traditionally grounded residential typology for the region.
Contemporary architecture villa
Quinlan Terry's Regent's Park villas are six large detached villas on the north-western edge of London's Regent's Park designed by the English Driehaus Prize winner and New Classical architect Quinlan Terry between 1988 and 2004. Terry designed each house in a different classical style, intended to be representative of the variety of classical architecture, naming them the Veneto Villa, Doric Villa, Corinthian Villa, Ionic Villa, Gothick Villa and the Regency Villa respectively.
The Villa Farnese
Mansion in Caprarola, Italy
The Villa Farnese, also known as Villa Caprarola, is a pentagonal mansion in the town of Caprarola in the province of Viterbo, Northern Lazio, Italy, approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) north-west of Rome. This villa should not be confused with the Palazzo Farnese and the Villa Farnesina, both in Rome. A property of the Republic of Italy, Villa Farnese is run by the Polo Museale del Lazio.
The Villa Le Lac
House by Le Corbusier in Corseaux, Switzerland
The Villa Le Lac, also known as the Villa Le Lac Le Corbusier, is a residential building on Lake Geneva in Corseaux, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, designed by Swiss architects and cousins Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret between 1923 and 1924 for Le Corbusier's parents. It is an example of residential Modern architecture and showcases three of Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture. The building is a designated Swiss Cultural Property of National Significance and was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2016.
The Villa Medici is a Mannerist villa and an architectural
Historic house in Rome, Italy
The Villa Medici is a Mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy. The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and now property of the French State, has housed the French Academy in Rome since 1803. A musical evocation of its garden fountains features in Ottorino Respighi's Fountains of Rome.
Villa Savoye is a modernist villa and gatelodge in Poissy
1931 building by Le Corbusier in Poissy, France
Villa Savoye is a modernist villa and gatelodge in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete.
