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One of the architects I most admire is Andrea Palladio. He was born in November 30th, 1508 in Padua, Italy. His real name was Andrea Di Pietro della Gondola. His work started when he was a teenager: he became a rock cutter apprendice, then, he joined to the builders guild and he became an assistant in the Giacomo da Porlezza's workshop in Vicenza. This learning was a strategic opportunity that took his work to Gian Giorgio Trissino's attention. Palladio worked with Trissino in Villa Trissino's renovation in Cricoli. In 1531 to 1538, the young man of Padua learned the principles of Clasic Architecture when he worked in new additions from the villa.

In 1545, Trissino took Palladio to Rome with him, where Andrea studied symmetry and proportions of roman architecture. Giving back his knowledge to Vicenza, Palladio won a great commission to rebuilt Palazzo della Regione. Andrea died in August 19th, 1580 in Vicenza, Italy.

Palladio focused in design and build villas for rich people in north of Italy. Villas are country houses, His builds was designed to be in harmony and balanced with man and nature. His architectonic style was based in calm and order, ideas that read in De Architettura by Vitruvio, and their builds are characterized for has symmetric plans and elevations (facades). Some of these most famous builds are Capra Villa, Emo Villa and Godi Malinverdi Villa. 

I like his work because he gives an atmosphere of calm with relatively simple forms in their projects; their villas, although being tall and solids, interacted with nature, generate an comfortable appearance; their proportions are so beautiful and the best of his projects is that majority of them are seated in the countryside.

Bibliography:
https://www.anticuable.com/blogs/news/12142117-villas-palladianas
https://www.arquitecturapura.com/biografia-andrea-palladio-arquitecto/