Impact of Palladio

Palladio's design are extremely important. He had such a vast influence in the development of Western architecture and his palaces and villas were imitated for 400 years all over the western world. He was the first architect to systematize the plan of a house and consistently to use the ancient Greco-Roman temple front as a portico, or roofed porch supported by columns. A roofed porch supported by columns was his most imitated architectural design. My own home contains that design, as well as so many other structures around the world. That in itself shows the impact he made, and how important he really is.