In Colin Rowe’s essay ‘The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa’ Rowe compares two buildings. Andrea Palladio’s ‘Villa Malcontenta’, Vicenza, Italy (1559) and Le Corbusiers ‘Villa Stein’, Garches, France (1928) also known as ‘Villa Garches’. Both buildings are of different styles, constructed during different time periods, using different architectural methods avaliable at the time. Upon first glance the designs appear to contrast each other, however, with careful analysis of conecptal ideas, Rowe was able to show the similarites and a resemblance between these two buildings.

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The following analysis, comparing the Chiswick House and the Douglas House, will use a similar process to that of Colin Rowe’s method.

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