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Seminar Presentation: Jacqueline Oliver, z3462557 SLIDE 1: Good afternoon, Within the context of the Room Matrix pattern my essay will be a comparative essay looking at the push and pull of landscape between Palladio’s Villa Barbaro at Maser, and the Stowe house and Garden in Buckinghamshire, England. The essay will examine each house and their relation to their surrounding landscape, looking at how appropriation, and adoption of ideas changes this relationship, and the impact of changing values and attitudes on this. SLIDE 2: The specific question which I will be responding to is: â€Å"Open of closed, sympathetic or imposed? Explore the push and pull of landscape within the paradigm of the room matrix pattern and the appropriation of†¦show more content†¦Even though ideas were appropriated/ emulated/ copied they have different results in the connection they have with their respective landscape. SLIDE 5: IMMEDIATE CONTEXT Palladio The essay will examine the immediate context of the Villa Barbaro and explore it’s paradoxical relationship with the landscape. Analysis of the building will show that while it appears to be an open villa expanding onto the landscape there is a complexity of a more reserved nature than is initially perceived. While immediate interpretation see’s the villa as opening onto the landscape in a very open way, the interpretation offered by Peter Eisenman suggests a subtler layering of spaces which in the after reading makes the building appear more closed off and reserved. Whereby he contrasts this notion of openness suggesting that the relationship of the garden is defined by Barchesses. Whereas Wittkower suggests a more public front, whereby â€Å"The whole faà §ade may be transformed into a temple front as was done at the villa Maser.† Clearly there is a tension between the public and private nature of the villa, further emphases by the main stairs and entrances be ing â€Å"divorced from the front faà §ade.† (Kubelik) SLIDE 6: Stowe House The Stowe house essentially adopts a Palladian Plan similar to that of the Villa Barbaro. The essay will look at how in this appropriation of ideas the connectionShow MoreRelatedDefragmentation in Technology with Concepts in Theoretical Philosophy1350 Words   |  6 Pagesto the study of semantics by Kumarila Bhatta whose use of â€Å"If† changed the whole course of an argument. This example also states the problem of self-contradicting thoughts in the conscious mind, which are not originally present in the mind or the ‘matrix’ but are yet found floating on the zephyr of confusion. 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