TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HUCKABEE COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
ARCH 1311 Design, Environment and Society

Lecture 05, OUTLINE

LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI Architectural Theory II
Urs Peter "Upe" Flueckiger

September 13, 2023

Key Personnel
Leon Battista Alberti 1404-1472

Key Books
De Pictura, 1435 
De re aedificatoria 1452 On the Art of Building in Ten Books

Key Buildings/Places/Words
Santa Maria Della Novella, Begun about 1246 
Façade of Palazzo Rucellai (1446–51 Age 42-47)
Completion of the façade of Santa Maria Novella, (1448–70 Age 38-66)
"The Eye is the most powerfully thing, the most worthy thing," L.B.A.
“The harmony of all parts in relation to one another." L.B.A.
San Sebastiano, Mantua (begun 1458 Age 54)
Sant'Andrea, Mantua (begun 1471 Age 67)

“If the city is like some large house, and the house is in turn like some small city cannot the various parts of the house- atria dining rooms porticoes and so on-be considered miniature buildings? Could anything be omitted from any of these, through inattention and neglect without detracting form the dignity and worth of the work? The greatest care and attention then, should be paid to studying these elements, which contribute to the whole work, so as to ensure that even the most insignificant parts appear to have been formed according to the rules of art.” L.B.A.

Links of Interest
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Alberti.html

ANDREA PALLADIO Architectural Theory III
Urs Peter "Upe" Flueckiger

Key Personnel
Andrea Palladio 1508-1580 also known as Andrea di Pietro Della Gondola

Key Books
I QuattroLibri dell'Architettura The four books of Architecture
(1570, The Four Books of Architecture Age 62)

Key Buildings/Places/Words
Theoretical Work:
I quattro libri dell'architettura 
(The Four Books of Architecture 1570)

Book I: 
Instruction of materials, the construction of a house from the foundation to the roof; general prescriptions, valid for both public and private building; prescriptions for the five Orders.

Book II: 
The dwelling-house in town and country (the villa

Book III:

Streets, bridges, squares and basilicas.

Book IV: 
Antique Temples, in Rome, Italy and outside Italy

Built Architectural Works:
Villa Godi (for Girolamo, Pietro and Marcantonio Godi),(1537-1542: Age 27-34)
Villa Pisani (for Vettore, Marco and Daniele Pisani), (1542 Age 34)
Villa Emo (for Leonardo Emo), (1558, Age 50)
Villa Foscari called La Malcontenta (1559, Age 51)
Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, (1565 Age 57 compl. after his death by Scamozzi)

Villa Capra "La Rotonda" (1566 Age 58 completed after his death by Scamozzi)
Church of Il Redentore, (1577, Age 69)

“You have to see these buildings with your own eyes to realize how good they are.”

“No reproductions of Palladio’s designs give adequate idea of the harmony of their dimensions; they must be seen in their actual perspective.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe