Very Good 26.0 x 18.0cms 442pp b/w Illusts No Jacket Stain on Spine Hard Cover When Alberti wrote this book in the mid 15th century it was the first text to focus exclusively on architecture for 1000 years. He prescribes how architects and their patrons should build the buildings of the future.

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Title: On The Art Of Building In Ten Books
Publisher: The MIT Press Cambridge MA 1989 Originally Publish
Publication Date: 1988
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0262010992
ISBN 13: 9780262010993
Binding: Hardcover

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The first major English translation of Alberti's fifteenth century treatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Alberti set out to replace Vitruvius' authority which had been undisputed for over a thousand years and frames a coherent account of the fragmented knowledge of antique architecture as it had survived through the dark and middle ages. His is the one book that established architecture as an intellectual and professional discipline rather than a craft and gave it a proper theoretical context. It provided a theoretical basis for the architecture of the Renaissance. Sixty-three illustrations. Glossary. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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This English edition surpasses the earlier one in a number of significant ways...It will no doubt soon find a place on all architectural reading lists, and deservedly so.

--Paul Davies, Art History

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