Seventeenth-Century Roman Palaces: Use and the Art of the Plan
By Patricia Waddy (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) "Buildings have lives in time," observes Patricia Waddy in this pioneering study of the relation between plan and use in the palaces of the Borghese, Barberini, and Chigi families. Waddy reconstructs what was done at precise moments in a building's life, relating these acts of building to the needs … Continued