Book one - lineaments; book two - materials; book three - construction; book four - public works; book five - works of individuals; book six - ornament; book seven - ornament to sacred buildings; book eight - ornament to public secular buildings; book nine - ornament to private buildings; book ten - restoration of buildings.
A new and valuable resource which immediately relegates to the category of a curiosity Rykwert's earlier republication of James Leoni's translation...Now all those involved with architecture...can listen to Alberti and find that be has much to say that will interest them. -- John Onians Building Design
Joseph Rykwert is Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture
Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.
Neil Leach is an architect and theorist who has taught at a number
of institutions worldwide, including the Architectural Association
in London, the Dessau Institute Dessau, Germany, and Columbia
University. He is the author, editor, or translator of more than a
dozen books, including Rethinking Architecture, The Anaesthetics of
Architecture (MIT Press, 1999), and Alberti's On the Art of
Building in Ten Books (MIT Press 1991).
Robert Tavernor is Professor and Head of Architecture at the
University of Bath and a practicing architect. His previous books
include a translation (with Joseph Rykwert and Neil Leach) of
Alberti's On the Art of Building in Ten Books; and Palladio and
Palladianism.
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
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