Giacomo Gatti – Palladio (2019)

Introduction
It left Italy with the United Nations World Cultural Heritage complex “Vicenza Ancient City and Veneto Country House”, and wrote the immortal “Four Books of Architecture”, the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (Andrea Palladio) Rewrite the history of world architecture. In later generations, landmarks such as the White House, the U.S. Capitol, and the Wall Street Stock Exchange, which were far away across the ocean, all followed the architectural style pioneered by Palladian. In 2010, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution and respected him as the “Father of American Architecture.” .
　　The documentary “Palladio” directed by Giacomo Gatti breaks the boring historical or biographical documentary mode and visits Venice, Vicenza, Washington in the United States, Brussels in Belgium and other cities, and visits Palladian Austria’s architectural heritage and the humanistic spirit behind it. In the film, there are famous interpretations brought by the most outstanding architects such as Peter Eisenman and Kenneth Frampton. The young architects of Yale University think about “Palladian” How to express the motif at the moment, and the people who still live in Palladian architecture are interviewed today-the multiple narratives give the audience a rich and vivid perspective of observation.