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On the Art of Building in Ten Books by Leon Battista Alberti

On the Art of Building in Ten Books

By Leon Battista Alberti
Translated by Joseph Rykwert
Contribution by Neil Leach and Robert Tavernor

By Leon Battista Alberti
Translated by Joseph Rykwert
Contribution by Neil Leach and Robert Tavernor

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Jul 01, 1991 | ISBN 9780262510608

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About On the Art of Building in Ten Books

De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for the subsequent history of architecture 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.

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Category: Arts & Entertainment

Paperback | $60.00
Published by The MIT Press
Jul 01, 1991 | 470 Pages | 6-7/8 x 10 | ISBN 9780262510608

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Praise

Brilliantly translated…Rykwert and his team have restored the pleasures of Alberti’s writing for English readers…This undoubtedly deserves to become the standard English translation.—Anthony Hughes, Times Literary Supplement—

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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