Palladio vs Wright: should a building obey rules or the land?

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PALLADIO vs WRIGHT go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

PALLADIO

A building must obey proportion as music obeys harmony; my villas balance every window because beauty is order made visible.

WRIGHT

Order copied from ancient temples is a corset, Andrea; my Fallingwater grows from its rock so the house and the waterfall are one breath.

PALLADIO

Your 'organic' walls still leaked, my friend, while my Rotonda has stood in the Veneto for four centuries without apology.

WRIGHT

Better a roof that dares and drips than a temple that merely repeats what Rome already perfected and forgot to live in.

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