Venice and America: the landscape of the republics
Symposium
The Institute hosts an insightful conference exploring the enduring ties between the USA and Italy through the architectural legacy and landscape traditions of the Veneto Villas. Starting from their Palladian inception, these estates not only influenced American architectural ideals but also introduced a rich culture of gardening, park design, and farming practices that shaped notions of beauty, leisure, and sustainable land stewardship.
This event offers a unique opportunity to reflect on how these villas, with their harmonious integration of architecture and landscape, fostered a transatlantic exchange that celebrates classical design and cultural heritage, while underscoring the importance of cultivated spaces as sites of ecological and social vitality across centuries.
With the participation of:
prof. Fabio Finotti, Director IIC NY
prof. Francesco Vallerani
(UNESCO Chair Senior Researcher Water, Heritage and Sustainable Development University of Venice Cà Foscari),
Count Alberto Passi de Preposulo
(journalist and expert in tourism and territorial marketing),
Alessandro Melis
(architect of the pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2021 – Professor NY Institute of Technology)
Maria Cristina Loi,
(docente di Storia dell’Architettura, Politecnico di Milano)
In collaboration with the Ville Venete association and ENIT.
In the photo a comparison of Villa La Rotonda by Andrea Palladio with The Rotunda of the University of Virginia, by Thomas Jefferson. Both inspired by the Pantheon. (collage by Alessandro Melis).
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