Rudolf Wittkower versus Le Corbusier: A Matter of Proportion

Francesco Benelli

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This article focuses on the origins of Rudolf Wittkower’s theory of proportion and the ways in which Wittkower uses this theory in analyzing Leon Battista Alberti’s and Palladio’s architecture in his essays of the 1940s, which eventually formed the body of Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism. The article examines a number of Wittkower’s sketches of plans, sections and elevations. It explores these themes in relation to a previously unopened box of documents in the Wittkower Archive of Avery Library, Columbia University, pertaining to the preparation for the 1951 Milan conference on proportion.

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1949Architectural principles in the age of humanism 1951Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism 2024The Stones of Venice 2008I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura 1998The four books on architecture 2021The four books of architecture 1949"Ars Sine Scientia Nihil Est" Gothic Theory of Architecture at the Cathedral of Milan 1882Vita di Leon Battista Alberti

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