Palladianize

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English

Etymology

From Palladian +‎ -ize.

Verb

Palladianize (third-person singular simple present Palladianizes, present participle Palladianizing, simple past and past participle Palladianized)

  1. To erect or remodel in the style of the Palladian school of architecture.
    • 1899, Herbert Hurst, Oxford Topography: An Essay, Oxford: he Oxford Historical Society at the Clarendon Press, page 112:
      This ‘building’ was probably nothing more than Palladianizing the windows.
    • 2000, Andor Gomme, Smith of Warwick: Francis Smith, Architect and Master-Builder, Shaun Tyas, →ISBN, page viii:
      Noticeably few of their buildings appear in the great eighteenth-century architectural pantechnica: Francis Smith’s prime came perhaps a little late for Vitruvius Britannicus, and in any case his houses were not of a kind to supply ammunition for Campbell’s palladianizing campaigns; by the time of Wolfe and Gandon they were very old-fashioned.
    • 2006, John Newman, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 290:
      This Rowland was created a baronet and, inheriting in 1727, enlarged and Palladianized the house.
    • 2007, Stephen Fox, “The Contemporary and the Palladian”, in The Country Houses of John F. Staub (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities; 11), Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 330:
      The critical confusion over limits, authority, and legitimizing identity that the Elkins House provokes did not reflect just the crisis of eclectic architects, such as Staub, trying to assimilate to modernist practices but also a developing crisis among American modern architects as they sought to negotiate the contradictions that Palladianizing modern architecture entailed.

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