A very simple rural building, one of several thousand in our Venetian countryside. Nothing in particular, absolutely nothing.
Doors and windows on a wall, which become signs on a sheet, which become elements to be ordered within a possible score that is capable of transforming it - that building - into an architecture. Framing windows, re-establishing a symmetry of the plant, creating that loggia with three arches that today is only the veil of a design idea.
Relatively little was enough for me, knowing what needed to be done: for this reason Vincenzo Arnaldi, intelligent and rich aristocrat who had already guessed at the time who I was becoming, asked me to start this restructuring.
I understood it later: it would have been enough to start it, to raise the value of the property instrumentally without proceeding to complete the work. But the idea of my work, its essence, is there.
Villa Arnaldi
Artists: Andrea Palladio
Client: Vincenzo Arnaldi
Project: 1547
Construction: 1547 - 1565