A Venezia si perde il senso della verticale : some meaningful episodes of the historical debate about the Nature of the geometrical organization of Venetian buildings

The influence of environment on Venice architecture has been for a long time the subject of several studies. A short analysis of 18th century technical literature and of some documents concerning Palazzo Ducale burnt in 1577, shows that some kind of geometrical deviations, in comparison to the rules of regular and good building – especially the deflection toward inside of the façades - have been upfront considered as intentional features. Those ones, who have read on this matter, aim at acknowledging that some of these non-conventional arrangements may be the peculiar shapes of an architecture which is strongly conditional on the nature of the site; and they are working at defining the reasons and behaviour of such peculiarities. There is no universal agreement on this theory, but now-a-days it is still arousing a great interest.