De Architectura is considered as the first book on architectural theory and as a major source on the canon of classical architecture as as it is the only treati

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for the subs