Tools for a Digital Reading of Andrea Palladio’s I Quattro Libri Dell’architettura

The paper describes a project having the goal to generate an instrument which could be able to superimpose to the original edition of Andrea Palladio’s Four Books of Architecture (Venice, 1570) – the most influential text of architecture over time - a brand new web-based interface in order to offer a more organic and transversal comprehension of its contents. Otherwise the new edition, as a knowledge information system, it's much more interesting than the former static 2D book page and shows the typical Palladian multimedia contents. Finally, Palladio’s main drawings are converted in a 3D space using 3D modeling techniques showing directly the two-way illustrated (text and drawing) character of his own architecture.