Palladio and contemporary architects

A boy of humble background who started as a stonemason and became the most famous architect in the world. He did so with the conviction that architecture could improve the world around him.
His architecture represents his dream of establishing the exact role and relation of each part of his compositions- from the perfect whole to each single room.
The proportion of each part is determined by a set of “harmonic” relations that derive from the Euclidian mathematics practiced in the 16th century.
Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher have celebrated the 500th anniversary of Palladio’s birth through the installation of “Aura L” and “Aura S” in the Piano Nobile of Villa Foscari La Malcontenta, a building designed by Palladio in 1555 for a site along the Brenta river as a symbol of the perfection of his architectural theories. .
These modern architects have thus presented two symbols of the order generated by a contemporary translation of Palladio’s harmonic system: through mathematical algorithms, they have generated some frequency curves that contain the DNA of the whole Palladian set of rules.
Through very advanced digital techniques, they have transformed the Euclidian mathematics and rules into dynamic “organisms”. (Classe 2C)