Product Description: Leon Battista Alberti was an outstanding polymath of the fifteenth century, alongside Piero della Francesca and before Leonardo da Vinci. While his contributions to architecture and the visual arts are well known and available in good English editions, and much of his literary and social writings are also available in English, his mathematical works are not well represented in readily available, accessible English editions have remained accessible only to specialists...read more

Product Description: Since Greek antiquity, the human body has been regarded as a microcosm of universal harmony. In this book, an international group of architects, architectural historians, and theorists examines the relation of the human body and architecture...read more

Product Description: A digest of Alberti's architecture which examines a variety of themes such as the relationship between the architect and his patrons, his writings on the visual arts and his practical example, his significance for the extension of architectural theory into practice, and his success in raising the status of architecture to an art...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)