The Eyes of the Skin depicts a classic theory of architecture. The way it is written reflects the author’s inspiration by the Finish National Romanticism movement in the early twentieth century. In this book, the author, Pallasmaa defends the importance of touch in the comprehension of our everyday spaces. He discusses the hegemony of touch and how the other senses are an extension of it. In this book, Pallasmaa expands his arguments in two long essays. The way he organizes his debates, shows his
artist, rationist and renaissance humanist in the early 1400's (1404 -1472AD). He wrote variety of books on paintings, sculpture and about family and society but his most important book was when he decided to renew Vitruvius book. "De Re Aedificatoria" Arts of Building (1452) created works that renowned Roman architect Vitruvius Ten Books on Architecture. Alberti aims to replace Vitruvius book because for Alberti this idea of clear language is essential. Since its written in a noble language
Leon Battista Alberti was born in 1404 and passed away in 1472. He was born into a wealthy family. His fathers family was one of the most wealthiest and highest ranking families in Florentine. His fathers name was Lorenzo, there isn’t anything on his mother so it is said that he was an illegitimate child. He studied literature, law and Greek where ever he went with his father. However, from an early age he would teach himself diverse scientific and artistic interests, such as music, sculpture, painting
Beauty – it should be aesthetically pleasing. According to Vitruvius, the architect should strive to fulfill each of these three attributes as well as possible. Leon Battista Alberti, who elaborates on the ideas of Vitruvius in his treatise, De Re Aedificatoria, saw beauty primarily as a matter of proportion, although ornament also played a part. For Alberti, the rules of proportion were those that governed the idealised human figure, the Golden mean. The most important aspect of beauty was, therefore
• Renaissance or “rebirth” is a cultural movement that has started in Italy during late 14th century and expanded to early 17th century. • Renaissance was a bridge that allowed Western Europe to move from the medieval era to the modern era. Renaissance later spread to other parts of Europe. • Advances in technology allowed art and architecture to flourish during the renaissance era. • Cities like Florence in Italy saw a spike of artists and architects who have changed from mere paid skilled laborers
twisted bourgeois Prada aw 10 - In a nod to Alberti’s De Re Aedificatoria, Prada and her collaborator, Rem Koolhaas, envisaged a set that was “an abstraction of a city,” made up of spaces such as a surreal beauty parlour, a music hall made from pink foam, and a “street” strewn with meaningless data. Into this strange world walked an equally strange figure: the Prada woman. Recalling the demureness of Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour, this season she was in the guise of a conservative, sixties