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• catalog abstract "De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first moderntreatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for the subsequent history ofarchitecture is incalculable, yet this is the first English translation based on the original,exceptionally eloquent Latin text on which Alberti's reputation as a theorist is founded. Joseph Rykwert and his colleagues have been scrupulous in following Alberti's original intentions. Their version is based on the critical text published in 1966 by Giovanni Orlandi. It replaces the only other significant English version, by the Venetian architect James Leoni, whose source was not the original Latin but an Italian translation dating from the sixteenth century. Rykwert's substantial introduction discusses Alberti's life and career - as papal functionary, writer on a wide variety of topics, and architect and discusses the De Re Aedificatoria itself - its relation to the De Architectura of Vitruvius, its influence on contemporary and later architectural theory and practice, and its bibliographic history. The apparatus also includes an index and a glossary of terms. The translators were fortunate to have the help of eminent Alberti scholar Hans-Karl Lücke of the University of Toronto. Alberti set out to replace Vitruvius's authority, which had been undisputed for over a thousand years. In a Latin which was both more elegant and more precise than that of his ancient predecessor, he succeeded in framing a coherent account of the fragmented knowledge of antique architecture as it had survived through the dark and middle ages. His was the one book which established architecture as an intellectual and professional discipline rather than a craft and gave it a proper theoretical context; by showing how the great examples of ruined antiquity could be emulated in practice, it provided a theoretical basis for the architecture of the Renaissance. Alberti organizes the work of the architect according to solidity, use, and grace. The ten books begin with a book of definitions; there follow two books devoted to materials and constructional methods; books four and five discuss the uses of the parts of the building and the different building types. The bulk of the second part, books six through nine deal with grace: the problems of designing sacred buildings, the problems of beauty and ornament, of proportions. Book ten takes up problems of restoration, water supply, and minor adjuncts to building. -- Publisher's website.".
• catalog alternative "De re aedificatoria. English".
• catalog contributor b1932596.
• catalog contributor b1932597.
• catalog contributor b1932598.
• catalog contributor b1932599.
• catalog created "c1988.".
• catalog date "1988".
• catalog date "c1988.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1988.".
• catalog description "Bibliography: p. 417-419.".
• catalog description "De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first moderntreatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for the subsequent history ofarchitecture is incalculable, yet this is the first English translation based on the original,exceptionally eloquent Latin text on which Alberti's reputation as a theorist is founded. Joseph Rykwert and his colleagues have been scrupulous in following Alberti's original intentions. Their version is based on the critical text published in 1966 by Giovanni Orlandi. It replaces the only other significant English version, by the Venetian architect James Leoni, whose source was not the original Latin but an Italian translation dating from the sixteenth century. ".
• catalog description "His was the one book which established architecture as an intellectual and professional discipline rather than a craft and gave it a proper theoretical context; by showing how the great examples of ruined antiquity could be emulated in practice, it provided a theoretical basis for the architecture of the Renaissance. Alberti organizes the work of the architect according to solidity, use, and grace. The ten books begin with a book of definitions; there follow two books devoted to materials and constructional methods; books four and five discuss the uses of the parts of the building and the different building types. The bulk of the second part, books six through nine deal with grace: the problems of designing sacred buildings, the problems of beauty and ornament, of proportions. Book ten takes up problems of restoration, water supply, and minor adjuncts to building. -- Publisher's website.".
• catalog description "Lineaments -- Materials -- Construction -- Public works -- Works of individuals -- Ornament -- Ornament to sacred buildings -- Ornament to public secular buildings -- Ornament to private buildings -- Restoration of buildings.".
• catalog description "Rykwert's substantial introduction discusses Alberti's life and career - as papal functionary, writer on a wide variety of topics, and architect and discusses the De Re Aedificatoria itself - its relation to the De Architectura of Vitruvius, its influence on contemporary and later architectural theory and practice, and its bibliographic history. The apparatus also includes an index and a glossary of terms. The translators were fortunate to have the help of eminent Alberti scholar Hans-Karl Lücke of the University of Toronto. Alberti set out to replace Vitruvius's authority, which had been undisputed for over a thousand years. In a Latin which was both more elegant and more precise than that of his ancient predecessor, he succeeded in framing a coherent account of the fragmented knowledge of antique architecture as it had survived through the dark and middle ages. ".
• catalog extent "xxiii, 442 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0262010992".
• catalog identifier "026251060X (pbk.)".
• catalog issued "1988".
• catalog issued "c1988.".
• catalog language "eng ita".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
• catalog subject "720 19".
• catalog subject "Architecture - Early works".
• catalog subject "Architecture Early works to 1800.".
• catalog subject "NA2515 .A3513 1988".
• catalog tableOfContents "Lineaments -- Materials -- Construction -- Public works -- Works of individuals -- Ornament -- Ornament to sacred buildings -- Ornament to public secular buildings -- Ornament to private buildings -- Restoration of buildings.".
• catalog title "De re aedificatoria. English".
• catalog title "On the art of building in ten books / Leon Battista Alberti ; translated by Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, and Robert Tavernor.".
• catalog type "Early works. fast".
• catalog type "text".