The fourth book contains five chapters of general introduction, then 26 chapters, each of which describe the designs of specific Roman temples dating from antiquity, along with one contemporary church design. The third book addresses matters of city planning: streets, stone street paving, bridges of both stone and wood, and piazzas, with examples drawn from Roman origins alongside contemporary examples also basilicas, including the basilica designed by Vitruvius in Fano and the important Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza. The plates of completed projects sometimes differ from the buildings as actually constructed. This includes nine palazzi, 22 villas (13 of them completed, another five partly completed), and a series of unrealized projects. The second book covers the designs of private urban townhouses and country villas of the 1500s, in and around Venice, almost all designed by Palladio himself. It documents five classical orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, Composite) in all their parts (bases, columns, architraves, arches, capitals, trabeations), as well as discussing other building elements (vaulted ceilings, floors, doors and windows, fireplaces, roofs and stairs). The first book discusses building materials and techniques.
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