Academic literature on the topic 'Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 De re aedificatoria'

Ce travail a essayé de rencontrer une architecture et un processus de conception architecturale en conjuguant les techniques de l'historien et celles de l'architecte. Les dispositifs spatiaux et constructifs de l'architecture de Giuseppe Terragni ont été décrits par les mots et par le dessin, réactivés par la dialectique d'Alberti sur le mur et la colonne dans le De re aedificatoria et par la pensée corbuséenne de l'espace à la fin des années vingt. Ces "objets théoriques" permettent de penser la spécificité des formes spatiales de Terragni à l'aune de deux traditions réinventées et de mieux saisir la manière dont chaque édifice ne s'installe pas dans le paysage, mais installe le paysage alentour dans son intériorité, n'invente pas les formes constituantes de l'espace, mais invente l'espace "en tant que tel" et sa "vérité constructive" en fonction de ce qu'il est
This work as tried to confront an architectural object with a process of architectural design by combining the techniques of the historian and those of the architecte. The spatial and constructive forms of Giuseppe Terragni's architecture have been describe in words and in drawings which have been analysed in the light of Alberti's dialectic on the column and the wall in his De re aedificatoria and the thinking of Le Corbusier concerning space at the end of the 1920's. These theoretical elements enable us better to analyse the specificity of Giuseppe Terragni's spatial forms in relation to two renewed traditions, and better to understand the way that each edifice does not fit into the given landscape but rather establishes the landscape within the edifice, and the way that each edifice does not create the components of space, but creates space "as such", inventing its "own constructive truth" in accordance with what it his

Leon Battista Alberti's church of Sant' Andrea in Mantua has been closely studied by many Renaissance scholars in relation to its layout, dimensions, proportions, chronology, style and aesthetics, as well as earning its place in both Alberti's corpus and the sweep of Renaissance architecture. The thesis investigates how eloquence is embodied in the sequential repetition of the triumphal arch motif between inside and outside. This thesis it is based on extensive and critical review of historical and theoretical literature. It marks a close examination of Sant?Andrea and to lesser extent San Francesco in Rimini, revisiting key ideas, texts and words. The principal finding of the thesis is that Alberti?s concept of respondeo, as developed in De Re Aedificatoria is the key to understanding the triumphal arch motif and its repetition in the interior. The thesis also comprehensively outlines the variety of contexts in which repondeo can be understood. This term, correlated to the passing of time and to rhetorical-based Albertian terms as decorum and convenio, means a 'sensitive suitability' between parts. The analysis of the triumphal arch motif of Sant?Andrea suggests that formalism has played a more important role in Alberti's design for this church than previously believed. This is by the motif's rigorous outline changing between the interior nave and the exterior fa??ade according to the observer's different visual perceptions. The rhetorical structure of the triumphal arch, in the way that it moves became from two to three dimensions in the fa??ade, seeks familiarity with the city's surrounding environment to establish simultaneity of actions. In this way, by joining the historical-religious point of references to a strategy of perception, the triumphal arch achieves public consensus. This rhetorical program is addressed especially by the patron of the church of Sant' Andrea Ludovico Gonzaga II also the ruler of Mantua with popular aspects of his public representations.