Vincenzo Scamozzi

the idea of a universal architecture

Scamozzi, Vincenzo

What Scamozzi seems to be offering is an apologia for the superiority of architecture, over the other arts, by arguing it is more of a science; and a more comprehensive treatment of subjects than his predecessors had achieved, as testified by the six books published running to 800 pages. His use for examples of villas and palaces he himself has designed is not so much self-promotion (which one suspects was the case with Palladio’s Second Book) as a desire to demonstrate that he applied his theories to his own practice.