Making Palladio Digitally Explicit: Geometrical Parameters in Door’s Ornaments

Abstract The Book I of Andrea Palladio's "The Four Books on Architecture", in which, after a brief discourse the five orders and those rules which are essential to building, private houses, streets, bridges, squares, xysti, temples discussed, contains design. Over years, many scholars have investigated how make explicit reasoning theory architectural proportions Palladio. A multitude studies were done concerning about compositive Villas. This ongoing research aims treatise Palladio visually mathematically by starting from his text images. study, at this stage, concentrates proportional graphical analysis for door’s ornaments. study made it possible identify molding elements’ philological construction relationship between their geometric up alignments, recurring intervals, equal subdivisions, successive partitions.