30 October 2019

Note: this is a continuation of my previous post. Please see that post for the abstract/description.

Note: Book 8, Chapter 7 discusses the constructions of theaters.

Work cited:

Alberti, Leon B, Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, and Robert Tavernor. On the Art of Building in Ten Books. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997.

Orginal title De re aedifactoria.
Written by Leon Battista Alberti in Latin circa 1452.
Originally published 1485.

Notes (continued from previous post)

Book 7: Ornaments to Sacred Buildings

7.1 Dignity of buildings = dignity of character
7.2 Temples: general thoughts
7.3 Temples: needs and uses
7.4 Temples: parts (portico, cella), shape, tribunals (?), a little more on geometry
7.5 Temple: plans, intercolumniation
7.6 Columns: parts, types, shapes, lineaments
7.7 Columns: bases (geometry)
7.8 Columns: capitals (geometry)
7.9 Beams/entablature/cornice/column fluting
7.10 Steps & Walls: thickness, decoration
7.11 Temple Roofs
7.12 Openings
7.13 Altar
7.14 Basilica
7.15 Colonnade
7.16 Commemorative momuments
7.17 Statues

Book 8: Ornaments to Secular Public Structures

8.1 Public custom and the need for public buildings
8.2 Sepulchers
8.3 Tombs & Mausoleums
8.4 Inscriptions
8.5 Watchtowers
8.6 Streets & Bridges (Covered Bridges), Forums
8.7 THEATERS
8.8 Circus and Amphitheater
8.9 Curia
8.10 Baths

Book 9: Ornaments to Private Buildings

9.1 Appropriateness, wealth, ostentation, restraint
9.2 City versus country
9.3 Proportion, size, “area,” openings, lineaments
9.4 Extravagance
9.5 Beauty: rules, proportions
9.6 Beauty in three dimensions: rules, proportions, “mean”
9.7 Columns in private buildings
9.8 Ornamental “faults”
9.9 Prudence, craftsmanship
9.10 Qualities appropriate to being an architect
9.11 Professional practice

Book 10: In Which the Restoration of Buildings Is Described

10.1 The diseases of buildings
10.2 Water: necessity
10.3 Water: finding, channeling, selecting, and storing (wells)
10.4 Finding hidden water
10.5 Excavation (vertical & channel)
10.6 Water supply, sanitization, water quality
10.7 Water conveyance
10.8 Cisterns
10.9 How to plant vines, woods
10.10 Importation and aquatic routes
10.11 Canals
10.12 Seashore, beaches & sand
10.13 Dumps?, making bad land good
10.14 Fire & chimneys
10.15 How to kill bugs, pests, vermin
10.16 Maintenance
10.17 Cracks and repairs