Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili : recognizing the architectural body in the early...
Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili : recognizing the architectural body in the early...
Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili : recognizing the architectural body in the early Italian Renaissance / Liane Lefaivre.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1997.
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NQ853.3/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
297 p. : ill. : 29cm.
Contents
Introduction: Metaphors and Mental Leaps: Toward a Cognitive History of Architecture -- 1. The Read Hypnerotomachia, Or the Hypnerotomachia as Knowledge -- 2. The Unread Hypnerotomachia, Or Design as Dreamwork and Thought Experiment -- 3. The Hard Hypnerotomachia, Or the Code of Recombination -- 4....
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1997.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili has long been considered the most legendary and enigmatic architectural book ever written. Since its publication in 1499, it has fascinated architects and historians with its vast display of architectural knowledge and its erudite reading of the related arts of landscape, engineering, painting, and sculpture. Because o...
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Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili : recognizing the architectural body in the early Italian Renaissance / Liane Lefaivre.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-293) and index.
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c1997.
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NQ853.3/1
Record Identifier
74VvDNQvNKK3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvDNQvNKK3
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ISBN
0262122049 (hc : alk. paper)
9780262122047 (hc : alk. paper)
DDC
853.3
MMS ID
991005005689702626
