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)
“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