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
Connections
- authored On the Art of Building in Ten Books
- influenced Andrea Palladio
- influenced Antonio Averlino, called Filarete
- influenced Claude Perrault
- proposed Proportion (as architectural theory hub)
- proposed Concinnitas
- influenced Sebastiano Serlio
- authored De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books)
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 September 1, 2026.