Theorist
Leon Battista Alberti
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Details
- Nationality
- Italian
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Notes
[DRAFT] Italian humanist, architect and polymath whose treatise De re aedificatoria (c.1452) was the first modern architectural theory, recasting Vitruvius for the Renaissance and grounding building in proportion, decorum and the dignity of the city.
Connections
- authored On the Art of Building in Ten Books
- influenced Andrea Palladio
- authored De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books)
- proposed Proportion (as architectural theory hub)
- proposed Concinnitas
- influenced Antonio Averlino, called Filarete
- influenced Sebastiano Serlio
- influenced Claude Perrault
Referenced by
- Vitruvius influenced
Sources
- Leon Battista Alberti. On the Art of Building in Ten Books (De re aedificatoria). MIT Press, 1988.
- Anthony Grafton. Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance. Hill and Wang, 2000.
- in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 7 of 34
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Leon Battista Alberti." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/leon-battista-alberti/. Accessed July 17, 2026.