Architecture in Israel
A conference which took place on the Israeli architectural production of this 50 years period, at the Department of Architecture at the Technical University of Delft. Organizer is the Chair of Architectural Theory, Design Knowledge Systems in collaboration with Bezalel Academy. Leading historians and practitioners of architecture from Israel presented key projects and historical and regional background.
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Almost five hundred years after its publication in Venice (1499), Hypnerotomachia Poliphili is enjoying an electronic reemergence on the web. The Design Knowledge Systems of the School of Architecture, University of Technology of Delft, in collaboration with The MIT Press has produced a facsimile of the original edition in conjunction with the publication of Liane Lefaivre, Leon Battista Alberti’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Re-cognizing the Architectural Body in the Early Italian Renaissance (ISBN: 0262122049). The Electronic Poliphili contains the integral text and illustrations, extracts and short references to Lefaivre’s book. Web readers are invited to explore this new edition using interactive text and image navigational devices. A discussion center will be established. The text can be accessed either through The MIT Press’s home page or the Design Knowledge Systems Center Home Page at the Technical University of Delft.
Written
by 1467 and printed at the press of the renowned early Renaissance Venetian
publisher, Aldus Manutius, in 1499, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili is held
among bibliophiles and book collectors to be the most beautiful book
of all time and, for this reason, it is one of the most sought-after
of all the incunabulae. It is celebrated as a masterpiece of typographical
design and for its spectacular images. More than just a beautiful object,
the book has attracted the universal admiration of scholars for its
scholarship, and for its identity as an erudite architectural treatise,
equal if not superior to the other treatises of the Renaissance. Liane
Lefaivre attributes the Hypnerotomachia, traditionally associated with
a Francesco Colonna, to Leon Battista Alberti.