Architecture thumb|The Uffizi Loggia|left Aside from his career as a painter, Vasari was successful as an architect."Vasari's ability as a painter cannot match his talents either as a historian or as an architect," according to Lawrence Gowing, ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists, v.4 (Facts on File, 2005): 695. His loggia of the Palazzo degli Uffizi by the Arno opens up the vista at the far end of its long narrow courtyard. It is a unique piece of urban planning that functions as a public piazza, and which, if considered as a short street, is unique as a Renaissance street with a unified architectural treatment. The view of the Loggia from the Arno reveals that, with the Vasari Corridor, it is one of the very few structures lining the river that is open to the river and appears to embrace the riverside environment.
Architecture thumb|The Uffizi Loggia|left Aside from his career as a painter, Vasari was successful as an architect."Vasari's ability as a painter cannot match his talents ,either as a hist,orian or as an architect," according to Lawrence Gowing, ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists, v.4 (Facts on File, 2005): 695. His loggia of the Palazzo degli Uffizi by the Arno opens up the vista at the far end of its long n,arrow courtyard. It is a unique piece of urban planning that functions as a public piazza, and which if considered as a short street, is unique as a Renaissance street with a unified architectural treatment. The view of the Loggia from the ?Arno reveals that, with the Vasari Corridor, it is one of the very few structures lining the river that is open to the river and appears to embrace the riverside environment.