PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF ECUADOR

FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND ARTS

DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE
THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE II
Name: Christopher Adrián Betancourt Toapanta. Parallel: 3
VILLA PALLADIANA – VILLA EMO

1. HISTORY:
Villa Emo, located in Italy in the town of Fanzolo di Vedelago, built in the years 1559-
1565, being a 20th century villa built by Andrea Palladio .
Palladio designed this villa in 1559 for the Emo family of Venice, the villa being mainly
used as an agricultural producer that remained with this family until it was sold in 2004,
being declared a WORLD HERITAGE HERITAGE by UNESCO in 1996.
2. ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES:
Composed of an extremely simple plan, based on practically parallel fundamental axes.
In the Villa Emo project, Palladio shows off a good connection and harmony between
the architectural forms, the functions to which it is subjected, and the relationship with
the land.

The central residential space has four columns, based mainly on the front of Greek
temples. Its plan extends from the central part to both the left and right sides made up
of palamares.

Villa Emo mainly shows off its simplicity and rigor of the system, marked by the almost
total alignment between the stables and the main front, where the portico and the
covered pediment are on the side of the main villa. Palladio uses the balance and
harmony of the composition giving the observer's eye an alternation of spaces,
volumes.
 3. FINISHES, EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR.

The exterior is simple, as Greek constructions were seen in ancient times, having a simple
façade but extremely ornate on the inside, being decorated with frescoes, mostly
representing Venus, the goddess of Love, throughout the Villa, these frescoes were made
by Giovanni Battista Zelotti , who has already worked with Palladio as is the case with the
Villa Foscari and several Villas More of him.
 4. BIBLIOGRAPHY:

http://www.boglewood.com/palladio/emo.html

http://www.villaemo.org/l-architettura

http://www.slideshare.net/fonamentsdeprojectes/05-apalladio-villa-emo