Rewriting Alberti
$53.66
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
28 October 2025
Summary
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 often been repeated in the annals of architectural history and theory, architects have rarely questioned the idea. In Rewriting Alberti, architect…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262553711 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262553716 |
| Author: | Peter Eisenman, Pier Vittorio Aureli |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 28 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 202mm x 137mm |
| Series: | Writing Architecture |
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About The Author
Peter Eisenman
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 cole Polytechnique Federale 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.
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.
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.
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