He often collaborated with renowned architect Girolamo Mengozzi-Colonna, who designed for the theater, to increase illusionist effects by incorporating architectural features for decorative richness, affirming a centuries-old tradition of exchange between stage design and painted narrative.
This works in the fierce attachment to an extraordinary architectural heritage so rich that it is taken for granted in many government policies that threaten that richness.
The architectural design recalls the scale and richness of form that is characteristic of the historic residential buildings on the Princeton campus". In addition to preserving the woodlands, the plan uses the natural slope of the site to locate taller buildings toward the lower part of the grounds and smaller buildings toward the higher ground levels, minimizing the perception of mass.
Instructors face a daunting task: how can a more expansive, nuanced picture of the history of the American built environment be taught when standard textbooks continue to privilege the same monuments decade after decade without acknowledging the richness of the American architectural legacy?
In the fullness and richness of their ideas, Leonardo's architectural studies offer an unusually wide-ranging insight into the architectural achievements of his epoch.
"The graceful, expansive floor plans, blend of lavish materials and subtle architectural details," it informs prospective buyers, "display a richness and confidence that evoke the grandeur of earlier West Village eras".
A small section devoted to books designed by artists has a fascinating geometric pop-up book made in imitation of architectural blueprinting by the 20th-century Dutch designer Sjoerd Hofstra, but considering the richness of fine-art book-making traditions, the offerings are meager.
The hall's scheduled opening on Oct. 23 not only inaugurates a new cultural era in Los Angeles, but like a capstone finally laid in place, also completes the city's dazzling architectural triptych of the Getty Center (1997) and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (last year) -- reminders of the city's richness.
He kept trying, over and over, to find new ways to rearrange the basic geometric shapes he loved so much — he was earnest, almost innocent, in his passion for pure architectural form — and his late work, if not dazzling in the way that his parents' house was, had a striking richness to it.
What results is a total environment of conspicuous but elusive richness, an effect distilled in miniature in two painted pages from a "Tale of Genji" album, in which objects, architectural structures, floating gold clouds and even figures participate in an oddly airless, destabilized vision of a domestic world.
