Rewriting Alberti

A fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s five built works, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning. Much has been written about Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s mantra of part-to-whole as one of the continuing conditions of architecture. While this underlying thesis has oft been repeated in the annals of architectural history and theory, architects have rarely questioned the idea. In Here, in one book are four different discourses (and more than 60 drawings) which look back at the origins of architectural signs and semiology and forward to understand the way that history informs architecture today.

Product details

• Authors: Pier Vittorio Aureli, Aureli Pier Vittorio, Mario Carpo, Peter Eisenman, Daniel Sherer
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.2025
• EAN: 9780262553711
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55371-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 203 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Writing Architecture
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / History / Renaissance, History of Architecture, Renaissance art, Renaissance style