Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City
by
Caspar Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti’s approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books), brought mostly to completion in the...