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  • Rewriting Alberti

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    A fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s five built works, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning.Much has been written about Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s mantra of part-to-whole as one of the continuing conditions of architecture. While this underlying thesis has often been repeated in the annals of architectural history ... En savoir plus

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  • Histories of the Immediate Present

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  • Lateness

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  • The Eyes of the Skin

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