Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Table of Contents

April 2005
8 x 11, 312 pp., 131 illus.
$35.00/£25.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-62195-9
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-62195-3

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Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Re-Cognizing the Architectural Body in the Early Italian Renaissance
Liane Lefaivre

	List of Illustrations	ix

	Acknowledgments	xi

	Introduction: Metaphors and Mental Leaps: Toward a Cognitive History of Architecture	1

1	The Read Hypnerotomachia, or the Hypnerotomachia as Knowledge	7

2	The Unread Hypnerotomachia, or Design as Dreamwork and Thought Experiment	45

3	The Hard Hypnerotomachia, or the Code of Recombination	79

4	Implausible Authors	97

5	The Real Poliphilo	111

6	Reconfiguring the Architectural Body, Changing the Architectural Mind	185

7	The Dangerous Body	199

8	The Marvelous Body	211

9	The Divine Body	227

10	The Humanist Body	233

	Notes	253

	Bibliography	281

	Index	295

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