1. INTD 403 History of Interior Design
Palladio

2. Palladio
Andrea Palladio (30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580), was greatly influenced by Greek and Roman architecture, and in particular by Vitruvius.
Palladio built villas and municipal buildings in Venice and the surrounding area.
His teachings, summarized in the architectural treatise Il Quattro Libri dell Architettura (The Four Books of Architecture), gained him wide recognition.
His villas are now UNESCO World Heritage sites.

3. Palladio
He was born as Andrea di Pietro della Gondola in Padua which was then part of the Republic of Venice. His father Pietro called "della Gondola" was a miller. Palladio gained his first experiences as a stonecutter in a sculpture workshop . The sculptor was said to have imposed particularly hard working conditions. In 1524, Palladio ran away to Vicenca. Here he became an assistant in the Pedemuro studio, a leading workshop of stonecutters and masons.

4. Count Gian Trissino
Palladio owed his career as an architect to the dramatist and poet Count Gian Giorgio Trissino, who recognised his potential while employing him on a building project. Trissino encouraged him to study the monuments of ancient Rome.
Over the course of five visits to Rome, he made measured drawings of the capital's Roman ruins.

5. The Forum, Rome

6. Vitruvius
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, 80–70 BC -15 BC) was a was a Roman writer, architect and engineer in the 1st century BC. He has been called the world's first known engineer.

7. Vitruvius
The Design Quality Indicator (DQI) tool for the measurement of the design quality of buildings uses Vitruvius's principles.
DQI applies a structured approach to assess design quality based on the model by the engineer Vitruvius the Roman author of the earliest surviving theoretical treatise on building in Western culture, who described design in terms of utilitas, firmitas and venustas, often translated as commodity, firmness and delight. DQI uses a modern day interpretation of these terms as:
Functionality (utilitas) - the arrangement, quality and interrelationship of spaces and how the building is designed to be useful to all
Build Quality (firmitas) - the engineering performance of the building, which includes structural stability and the integration, safety and robustness of the systems, finishes and fittings
Impact (venustas) - the building’s ability to create a sense of place and have a positive effect on the local community and environment

8. Palladio
He was committed to principles of symmetry and proportion. He built building built on the principles of classical architecture, at odds with the Gothic and early Renaissance architecture of the time.