Meaning of Palladianize | Babel Free

Definitions

To erect or remodel in the style of the Palladian school of architecture.

Examples

“This ‘building’ was probably nothing more than Palladianizing the windows.”

“Noticeably few of their buildings appear in the great eighteenth-century architectural pantechnica: Francis Smith’s prime came perhaps a little late for Vitruvius Britannicus, and in any case his houses were not of a kind to supply ammunition for Campbell’s palladianizing campaigns; by the time of Wolfe and Gandon they were very old-fashioned.”

“This Rowland was created a baronet and, inheriting in 1727, enlarged and Palladianized the house.”

“The critical confusion over limits, authority, and legitimizing identity that the Elkins House provokes did not reflect just the crisis of eclectic architects, such as Staub, trying to assimilate to modernist practices but also a developing crisis among American modern architects as they sought to negotiate the contradictions that Palladianizing modern architecture entailed.”

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