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Chapter 10532 more than a year, it would be a great advantage that its designer was living next door, and could closely supervise the building’s progress. Moreover Strada’s connection with the Imperial building works would be favourable, making it easier to find labourers and specialized artisans and perhaps materials as well. In any case the lay-out of Teuffenbach’s house [Fig. 10.25], built on a site of irregular proportions, demonstrates an intelligent application of Serlio’s proposals for building on irregular sites [Fig. 10.26]. These were included in Figures 10.27–10.28 Drnholec, the castle built ca. 1583–1587 for Christoph von Teuffenbach, restructured in the late eighteenth century; and a detail of one of its stucco ceilings. Figure 10.24 Johannes Sadeler, Christoph von Teuffenbach, engraving after a lost portrait by Hans von Aachen, 1595. Figures 10.25–10.26 Plan of the house built ca. 1565–1570 in Vienna for Christoph von Teuffenbach, compared to one of the projects for houses on an irregular site from Serlio’s Settimo Libro (1575).