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Decoding De re aedificatoria: Using Grammars to Trace Alberti’s Influence on Portuguese Classical Architecture

Krüger, Mário / Duarte, José Pinto / Coutinho, Filipe

Abstract The research described in this paper is part of a project aimed at decoding Alberti’s De re aedificatoria by inferring the corresponding shape grammar using the computational framework provided by description and shape grammars to determine the extent of such an influence in the Counter-Reformation period in Portugal. Here we concentrate on the theoretical foundations that enable the translation of Alberti’s text into a shape grammar and then use it in determining its influence on Portuguese Renaissance architecture.

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Decoding De re aedificatoria: Using Grammars to Trace Alberti’s Influence on Portuguese Classical Architecture

Krüger, Mário / Duarte, José Pinto / Coutinho, Filipe

Abstract The research described in this paper is part of a project aimed at decoding Alberti’s De re aedificatoria by inferring the corresponding shape grammar using the computational framework provided by description and shape grammars to determine the extent of such an influence in the Counter-Reformation period in Portugal. Here we concentrate on the theoretical foundations that enable the translation of Alberti’s text into a shape grammar and then use it in determining its influence on Portuguese Renaissance architecture.

Decoding De re aedificatoria: Using Grammars to Trace Alberti’s Influence on Portuguese Classical Architecture

Krüger, Mário / Duarte, José Pinto / Coutinho, Filipe

Abstract The research described in this paper is part of a project aimed at decoding Alberti’s De re aedificatoria by inferring the corresponding shape grammar using the computational framework provided by description and shape grammars to determine the extent of such an influence in the Counter-Reformation period in Portugal. Here we concentrate on the theoretical foundations that enable the translation of Alberti’s text into a shape grammar and then use it in determining its influence on Portuguese Renaissance architecture.

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Title:

Decoding De re aedificatoria: Using Grammars to Trace Alberti’s Influence on Portuguese Classical Architecture

Contributors:

Krüger, Mário (author) / Duarte, José Pinto (author) / Coutinho, Filipe (author)

Published in:

Nexus Network Journal ; 13 ; 171-182

Publication date:

2011-02-04

Size:

12 pages

ISSN:

1522-4600 , 1590-5896

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-011-0060-x

Type of media:

Article (Journal)

Type of material:

Electronic Resource

Language:

English

Keywords:

theory of architecture , shape grammars , Leon Battista Alberti , De re aedificatoria , design automation , rapid prototyping Mathematics , Mathematics, general , History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics , Popular Science, general , History, general

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