500th Anniversary of the birth of Palladio

In celebration of the quincentenary of the birth of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio, there are many events in Italy, UK and US:
* Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America
Summer Lecture Series 2008
at New York School of Interior Design (170 East 70th Street):
Wed., June 11 - Palladio: The Early Villas
Wed., June 25 - Palladio: Between Theory and Tradition
Wed., July 9 - Palladio and Painting
Wed., July 16 - Palladio's Villas: The Development of an Ideal
* Italian Dressing: Palladio and American Classicism
at Virginia Center for Architecture, Richmond
June 26 - October 5, 2008
* Palladio's Rome
edited and translated by Vaugham Hart and Peter Hicks
Yale University Press
* exhibition organized by Centro Internazionale Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza - the Royal Academy of Arts, London - and the Royal Institute of British Architects
at Palazzo Barbaran da Porto, Vicenza
September 20, 2008 - January 6, 2009
(The exhibition will then move to London /Royal Academy of Arts, January 31 – April 13, 2009/ and will close in the United States of America in Autumn 2009)
* The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America - Columbia University
Nov 14, 2008
Conference: The Project of Andrea Palladio
Organized by Francesco Benelli (Columbia)
Co-sponsored by Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio (CISA Palladio) and Regione Veneto
Speakers: James Ackerman (Harvard); Howard Burns (Scuola Normale, Pisa); Guido Beltramini (CISA Palladio); Paola Marini (Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona); David Rosand (Columbia); Kurt Foster (Yale); Tracy Cooper (Temple); Mario Piana (IUAV)

- article by Wendy Moonan (New York Times)
- resources (biography, bibliography, excellent and huge photogallery)
- virtual tours