Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. Offering theoretical and practical solutions to a wide variety of architectural issues, ...

His book draws upon the close study of literary and visual ... shaped daily practices and contributed to new forms of understanding. Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance offers a ...

This journey into Italian architecture is an on-going enquiry into the diverse project typologies being developed, the degree of innovation and the way they mesh form with technical requirements. The ...

The Postmodern style in architecture, anticipated by Paolo Portoghesi around 1960, can be seen in the "Teatro del Mondo" (Theatre of the World) built by Aldo Rossi for the Venice Biennale of 1980.

Her research interests focus on 15th- and 16th-century Italian architecture, on which she has published a number of articles and books. Her book ‘Florentine Villas in the 15th Century’ came out in ...

As the italian architectural critic Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi observes in the introduction to the volume, "This book tells the story of a single project, even if the works presented are different ...

In the late 1960s, an Italian architectural collective ... which have become standard imagery in architectural history books, are generally presented as sophisticated satire.