{"product_id":"rewriting-alberti-paperback","title":"Rewriting Alberti - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Eisenman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePier Vittorio Aureli\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eMario Carpo\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti's five built works, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMuch has been written about Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti's mantra of part-to-whole as one of the continuing conditions of architecture. While this underlying thesis has often been repeated in the annals of architectural history and theory, architects have rarely questioned the idea. In \u003ci\u003eRewriting Alberti\u003c\/i\u003e, architect Peter Eisenman suggests, however, that Alberti provoked a radical discourse beyond the part-to-whole dialogue featured in his \u003ci\u003eTen Books of Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e. Eisenman's in-depth analysis of Alberti's five built works reveals a disjunction between the architect's buildings and theoretical writings, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning based on the fragmentation of homogeneous space. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRewriting Alberti\u003c\/i\u003e includes contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Mario Carpo, and Daniel Sherer. Carpo, an architectural historian and critic, theorizes that Alberti's work initiated an idea of the discipline as a notational system akin to contemporary computational logics. By way of comparison, Sherer, an architectural historian, reconsiders critic Manfredo Tafuri's readings of Alberti, and architect and theorist Aureli draws on Alberti to propose another idea of the architectural \"project.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, in one book are four different discourses (and more than 60 drawings) that look back at the origins of architectural signs and semiology and forward to understand the way that history informs architecture today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Eisenman is an architect, educator, and author. Among his many books are \u003ci\u003eGiuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques; Ten Canonical Buildings: 1950-2000; Palladio Virtuel\u003c\/i\u003e, and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eLateness.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePier Vittorio Aureli teaches at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is the cofounder of the architectural office Dogma, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Possibility of an Absolute Architecture \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eArchitecture and Abstraction, \u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eLiving and Working\u003c\/i\u003e (all with the MIT Press). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMario Carpo is the Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History at the Bartlett-UCL in London and Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Applied Arts (die Angewandte) in Vienna. His books include \u003ci\u003eArchitecture in the Age of Printing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Second Digital Turn\u003c\/i\u003e (both with the MIT Press). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDaniel Sherer is an architectural historian, critic, and theorist who teaches at the Princeton School of Architecture. His translation of Manfredo Tafuri's \u003ci\u003eInterpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects\u003c\/i\u003e won the Sir Nikolaus Pevsner Book Award in 2006.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.7 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43157603909695,"sku":"9780262553711","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/yOv5P-0sdW9780262553711.webp?v=1776982724","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/rewriting-alberti-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}