Sunday, December 11, 2011

Architectural Resonances

Two 15th-century designs by the Italian Leon Battista Alberti, famous for treatise De Re Aedificatoria, based on the book De Architectura by Roman writer Vitruvius.

a. Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini  [officially named for St. Francis]



b. Santa Maria Novella, Florence
 

and

c. Royal Presidio Chapel, Monterey



designed after 1789 in Mexico City--oldest architecturally designed, oldest stone building on the West Coast

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