[1st Am ed] Leon Battista Alberti: On the Art of Building in Ten Books
First English translation of this foundational architectural treatise based directly on the original Latin text of 1486. Translated by Joseph Rykwert with contributions from Neil Leach and Robert Tavernor..Published in 1988 by MIT Press. 8vo, hardcover with pictorial dust jacket, 442 pages with b/w diagrams and elevations. With an introduction by Rykwert, annotations, a glossary of Latin terms and architectural vocabulary, and a bibliography and index. A significant contribution to the study of architecture, this book makes Alberti’s rigorous treatise accessible to modern readers—a treatise that helped lay the groundwork for modern architectural theory in its balancing of practicality, beauty, morality, and civic life. Inscribed on the FFE by Joseph Rykwert to curator and author Gabriella Canfield. Minor rubbing to dj, with light chipping to spine end.
First English translation of this foundational architectural treatise based directly on the original Latin text of 1486. Translated by Joseph Rykwert with contributions from Neil Leach and Robert Tavernor..Published in 1988 by MIT Press. 8vo, hardcover with pictorial dust jacket, 442 pages with b/w diagrams and elevations. With an introduction by Rykwert, annotations, a glossary of Latin terms and architectural vocabulary, and a bibliography and index. A significant contribution to the study of architecture, this book makes Alberti’s rigorous treatise accessible to modern readers—a treatise that helped lay the groundwork for modern architectural theory in its balancing of practicality, beauty, morality, and civic life. Inscribed on the FFE by Joseph Rykwert to curator and author Gabriella Canfield. Minor rubbing to dj, with light chipping to spine end.
First English translation of this foundational architectural treatise based directly on the original Latin text of 1486. Translated by Joseph Rykwert with contributions from Neil Leach and Robert Tavernor..Published in 1988 by MIT Press. 8vo, hardcover with pictorial dust jacket, 442 pages with b/w diagrams and elevations. With an introduction by Rykwert, annotations, a glossary of Latin terms and architectural vocabulary, and a bibliography and index. A significant contribution to the study of architecture, this book makes Alberti’s rigorous treatise accessible to modern readers—a treatise that helped lay the groundwork for modern architectural theory in its balancing of practicality, beauty, morality, and civic life. Inscribed on the FFE by Joseph Rykwert to curator and author Gabriella Canfield. Minor rubbing to dj, with light chipping to spine end.
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