He also designed some of the decoration for the Villa Madama, the work in both villas being executed by his workshop.

Internal spaces were designed to be relatively low-cost, yet functional and with decorative elements reminiscent of the detached houses and villas to which the buyers might aspire later in their lives.

One of the finest of these villas is Llanerchaeron, at least a dozen villas were designed throughout south Wales.

Real estate on Seabrook Island is made up of carefully designed homes, townhomes, and villas, as well as land for sale where one can build a dream home from the ground up.

Palaces, private dwellings and villas, were elaborately designed and town planning was comprehensive with provisions for different activities by the urban resident population, and for countless migratory population of travelers, traders and visitors passing through their cities.

Andrea Palladio influenced architects throughout western Europe with the villas and palaces he designed in the middle and late 1500s.

Rome had more than its share of villas with easy reach of the small sixteenth-century city: the progenitor, the first villa suburbana built since Antiquity, was the Belvedere or palazzetto, designed by Antonio Pollaiuolo and built on the slope above the Vatican Palace.

Besides these designed for seasonal pleasure, usually located within easy distance of a city, other Italian villas were remade from a rocca or castello, as the family seat of power, such as Villa Caprarola for the Farnese.

Palladio always designed his villas with reference to their setting.

In the 20th century International style villas were designed by Roberto Burle Marx, Oscar Niemeyer, Luis Barragán, and other architects developing a unique Euro-Latin synthesized aesthetic.

Of the six large villas on the estate four were designed by Waterhouse ( Erleigh Park 1859, Whiteknights 1868, Foxhill 1868 and the Wilderness 1873 ).

Bearsden continued to expand in the twentieth century as residents built large independently designed villas, estates of bungalows, and other types of houses.

Many of the Bucharest villas he had designed, which had Jewish landlords, were also taken over forcefully by the authorities.

Mylne left Rome in April 1759, travelling to Florence, where he was elected to the Academy of Art, then Venice, Brescia, and villas designed by Andrea Palladio.

He designed many palaces, villas, and churches, but Palladio's reputation, initially, and after his death, has been founded on his skill as a designer of villas.

Palladio always designed his villas with reference to their setting.

The Villa Madama was the first of the revived Roman type of suburban villas designed for parties and entertainment built in 16th century Rome, and it was consciously conceived to rival descriptions of the villas of Antiquity, like Pliny's famous description of his own.

" According to Gavin Stamp, " Thomson carefully designed his villas with symmetries within an overall asymmetry in a personal language in which the horizontal discipline of a continuous governing order — whether expressed or implied — was never abandoned.

Unlike some other Palladian villas, the building was not designed from the start to accommodate a working farm.

He made detailed drawings of many of the great villas designed by Palladio which were to serve as the inspiration for his later work.

He designed and built 106 villas and 54 terrace houses in Southsea, including Queens Terrace, Portland Terrace, and Eastern Parade.

* Structures ; Ruins of palaces, palatial villas, houses, built dome-or cist-graves and fortifications ( Aegean islands, Greek mainland and northwestern Anatolia ), but not distinct temples ; small shrines, however, and temene ( religious enclosures, remains of one of which were probably found at Petsofa near Palaikastro by J. L. Myres in 1904 ) are represented on intaglios and frescoes.

On the edges of Barcelonnette and Jausiers there are several houses and villas of colonial style ( known as maisons mexicaines ), constructed by emigrants to Mexico who returned to France between 1870 and 1930.

The characteristics they shared with many Merovingian female saints may be mentioned: Regenulfa of Incourt, a 7th-century virgin in French-speaking Brabant of the ancestral line of the dukes of Brabant fled from a proposal of marriage to live isolated in the forest, where a curative spring sprang forth at her touch ; Ermelindis of Meldert, a 6th-century virgin related to Pepin I, inhabited several isolated villas ; Begga of Andenne, the mother of Pepin II, founded seven churches in Andenne during her widowhood ; the purely legendary " Oda of Amay " was drawn into the Carolingian line by spurious genealogy in her 13th-century vita, which made her the mother of Arnulf, Bishop of Metz, but she has been identified with the historical Saint Chrodoara ; finally, the widely-venerated Gertrude of Nivelles, sister of Begga in the Carolingian ancestry, was abbess of a nunnery established by her mother.

In former Roman settlements, a system of villas, dating from Late Antiquity, was inherited by the medieval world.

The former district of quiet villas was by now anything but quiet: Potsdamer Platz had taken on an existence all its own whose sheer pace of life rivalled anything within the city.

It was situated in an area near to several other villas, and was close to Watling Street, a Roman road by which travellers could move to and from Londinium to Durobrivae, Durovernum Cantiacorum, and the major Roman port of Rutupiæ ( i. e., London, Rochester, Canterbury, and Richborough, respectively ).

According to Pliny the Elder, there were two kinds of villas: the villa urbana, which was a country seat that could easily be reached from Rome ( or another city ) for a night or two, and the Villa rustica, the farm-house estate permanently occupied by the servants who had charge generally of the estate.

Other villas in the hinterland of Rome are interpreted in light of the agrarian treatises written by the elder Cato, Columella and Varro, both of whom sought to define the suitable lifestyle of conservative Romans, at least in idealistic terms.

A villa might be quite palatial, such as the imperial villas built on seaside slopes overlooking the Bay of Naples at Baiae ; others were preserved at Stabiae and Herculaneum by the ashfall and mudslide from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, which also preserved the Villa of the Papyri and its libraries.

As the Roman Empire collapsed in the fourth and fifth centuries, the rustic villas were more and more isolated and came to be protected by walls.

Though in England the villas were abandoned, looted, and burned by Anglo-Saxon invaders in the fifth century, in other areas large working villas were donated by aristocrats and territorial magnates to individual monks, often to become the nucleus of famous monasteries.

Gentrification has happened since ancient times ; in Britain large villas were replacing small shops by the third century.

Kauniainen was founded by a corporation in 1906, AB Grankulla, that parcelled land and created a suburb for villas ; Kauniainen received the status of a market town in 1920, the Finnish name in 1949, and the title of kaupunki (" city, town ") in 1972.

The era of the villas ended with the Second World War and was replaced by reconstruction and economically challenging times.

He suggested that the villa milieu would be kept, but that the number of inhabitants would be significantly raised, from 2, 500 to 10, 000, and that the unmodern villas would be replaced by new ones.

* Brill is one of Germany ’ s largest districts of Gründerzeit villas, i. e. middle class mansions built by industrial entrepreneurs in the second half of the 19th century.

The group's name originates from Clapham Common, an area south-west of London then surrounded by fashionable villas.

It is not mentioned by any Roman historian, although Roman villas have been discovered in the area, as well as of constructions from the Visigothic age.

Her style of designing garden rooms, defined outdoor spaces which transition distinctly from one to another, was inspired by studying Italian Renaissance gardens and villas in her travels.

Unlike his earlier town villas Corbusier was able to carefully design all four sides of the Villa Savoye in response to the view and the orientation of the sun.