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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.
About the author
Peter Eisenman is an architect, educator, and author. Among his many books are
Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques; Ten Canonical Buildings: 1950–2000; Palladio Virtuel, and, most recently,
Lateness. Pier Vittorio Aureli teaches at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is the cofounder of the architectural office Dogma, author of
The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture and
Architecture and Abstraction, and coauthor of
Living and Working (all with the MIT Press).
Mario Carpo is the Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History at the Bartlett-UCL in London and Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Applied Arts (die Angewandte) in Vienna. His books include
Architecture in the Age of Printing and
The Second Digital Turn (both with the MIT Press).
Daniel Sherer is an architectural historian, critic, and theorist who teaches at the Princeton School of Architecture. His translation of Manfredo Tafuri’s
Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects won the Sir Nikolaus Pevsner Book Award in 2006.
Summary
A fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti s five built works, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning.
