CONTENTS
Preface to the English Edition vii
1.Prologue: Architectural culture and technological context 1
2. Vitruvius, text and image 16
3. Architectural knowledge in the Middle Ages: Orality and memory versus script and image 23
I. Rules Without Models 23
II.Models without Images 36
4. Architectural drawing in the age of its mechanical reproduction 42
I. Serlio 42
II. Rome in the 1540s 56
III. Paris in the 1540s 71
5. Geneva 79
I. Triumpth and Censorship of the Printed Book 79
II. North and South : Books versus Images, Images without Books, Images in Books 81
III. Illustrated Books and Architectural Treatises in Geneva 88
IV. Serlio’s Orders, Vitruvianism and the Protestant World 96
6. Decline and fall of typographic architecture 103
I. From Shute to Vignola 103
II. From Gesner to Possevino 109
7. The turning point of 1450: Abstract rules versus standardized components in Albertian theory 119
I. Alberti 119
II. Francesco di Giorgio 124
III. Filarete 131
Notes 141
Bibliography of Frequently Cited Works 224
Name Index 237