| Description |
297 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| 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. Implausible Authors -- 5. The Real Poliphilo -- 6. Reconfiguring the Architectural Body, Changing the Architectural Mind -- 7. The Dangerous Body -- 8. The Marvelous Body -- 9. The Divine Body -- 10. The Humanist Body |
| 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 of its dense, almost Joycean prose - a polyglot concoction of Latin, Greek, and vernacular Italian, with a smattering of Hebrew, Arabic, and hieroglyphics - the book has received relatively little analysis. Liane Lefaivre offers the closest critical-theoretical reading to date, placing it within both the historical context of the quattro-cento and the rethinking of the metaphor of the architectural body. Adding to the obscurity of the text is the mystery surrounding its author. So far, attribution have focused on two Francesco Colonnas, one a Dominican monk living in Venice, the other a Roman baron. Liane Lefaivre attributes the Hypnerotomachia to Leon Battista Alberti |
| Subject |
Colonna, Francesco, -1527. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
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Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 -- Authorship.
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Colonna, Francesco, -1527 -- Authorship.
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| LC no. |
96040960 |
| ISBN |
0262621959 pb |
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