Landscape architect Thomas Woltz has a enthusiasm for the clarity and proportion of Italian Renaissance architecture. That Woltz life in a gabled Queen Anne Victorian comes as an ironic shock, even to him. “Palladio did not use spindles and gingerbread,” he notes, dryly. But his residence, jointly with the backyard he has established there around the earlier two a long time, is a unified study in satisfying contrasts. The impact is at as soon as disciplined and spontaneous, respectful and irreverent. A lot like the person himself. Woltz purchased the dwelling, in a little Virginia city in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in 1999. His restoration honors what…