MARVIN TRACHTENBERG
uilding-in-Time
FROM GIOTTO TO ALBERTI
AND MODERN OBLIVION
Yale University Press
NEW HAVEN AND LONDON
CONTENTS
Preface ix Building-outside-Time in Alberti's
De Re Aedificatoria
Alberti's Concept of Time:
1 In Modern Oblivion: Rethinking
Its Role in Architecture
Architecture, Time, and History r
The Immutability of Perfection:
Architecture Against Time i Abstraction and Mimesis
The Architecture of "Architecture" 7 Alberti's Choice: Metaphorphosis and
The Ideology of Chronicide t 1 Anti-Metamorphosis
Renaissance Origins of Architectural Chronicide 13 Alberti, Architecture, and the Text:
Factura and Time 14 Inventing the Author Function
Building with Time 16 Building-against-Time: The Pseudo-Albertian
Chronophobia and Architectural Historiography 19 Hero and the Divine Michelangelo
2 Regimes of Time Consciousness in 4 Building-in-Time in
Architectural Lifeworlds 2.5 "Pre-Albertian" Italy
The Social-Historical Construction of Time 26 Place, Time, and Architecture
The Temporal Matrix of Late Modernity ifi Time was the Mortar: The Material, Aesthetic
The Medieval Time Regime 2.9 and Social Role of Duration
Monastic and Temporal Hours and the Optimizing the Scale-Income-Duration
Daily Round 3 1 Triangle
The Semantic Density of the Medieval Calendar 33 Alberti's Refusal of Financial Triangulation
Temporal Singularities: Inflating the Temporal-Material Triangle:
Astrology, the Afterlife, and History 35 The Rising Scale of the Work
The Mechanical Clock and the Turn to Desire, Deferral, and the Fragment:
Modernity after 1300 39 Toward a Durational Aesthetics
Time and the Production of Civic Order Paradigms and Principles of Practice
and Identity 40 / Continuous Redesign (and the Role
Learning to Live by the Clock 45 of Eclecticism)
Issues of Proliferation: The Production of U Myopic Progression
an Integral Temporal Space 46 III Concatenation
The Sandglass as Necessary Supplement 48 IV Retrosynthesis
Being in the New Time: The Human/ist
Clock of Desire and Mortality 51
^ The Art of Building-in-Time:
Owning and Instrumentslizing Time:
Florentine Practice
Bankers, Humanists, and Petrarch 56
The Florentine Cathedral Group:
Premodern Regimes of Continuous Redesign and
3
Architecture and Time Myopic Progression
63
Concatenation and Retrosynthesis at the
Building, Time, Change 63 Cathedral Group
Three Temporal Regimes of The Cathedral Walls and Problematics
Architectural Production 67 of Archeology
All Extreme Art of Building-in-Time at "Gothic" into "Renaissance" at the Duonio
the Campanile i 74 1367-1439 336
The Palazzo Vecchio .186 Brunelleschi's Career-Building in Time 341
Realignments of Architecture and Politics In and Out of the Florentine Reggimeuto:
in the Tower 1307-1310/13 191 Brunelleschi Homo Paliticus 35 1
Perspectivism and Building-in-Time at
the Piazza clella Signoria 202
8 Alberti and Brunelleschi 357
Seeing the Nave of Santa Maria Novella 105
Decoding the Nave of Santa Maria Novella 222
Alberti In and Out of Brunelleschi's Shadow 357
Non-Identical Architectural Twins: The Dedicatory Letter to Delia Pittura
Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce 226 and the Problem of Fame 361
The "Little Dark Ages" and the Second
Wave of Revival 366
6 Reflections of Practice
(Leon) Battista Contra "Pippo" 369
Aggrandizement and Authority Alberti's Burial of Brunelleschi
in Building-in-Time 133 and the Brunelleschiani 370
The Radiance of Pisa Alberti's Knot 373
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Alberti's Practice and the Art of
Chasing the Shadows from Milan Cathedral 239
The Case of Siena: Mastery and Malfunction Building-in-Time 376
244
The Individual Architect in Building-in-Time 261
The Problem of the Artist as Architect 264 9 Renaissance Temporalities
A Representational Field: After Alberti 38s
Artists and Architecture 170
Temporal Anamorphosis in Pienza and
Dominion of the Eye: Pictorial Practice,
the Piazza Santissima Annunziata 392
Scenographic Spectacle, and the Art of
New St. Peter's: Building-in-Time at the Edge 397
Representation 279
Architectural Entropies: Running Out of Time 40:1
Creative Authority and its Limits 281
The Great Church Facade Dilemma:
Beyond Panofsky 404
7 Cohabiting Temporalities of
Conundrum and Paradox
Temporal
Architectural Practice in at Nogent-sur-Seine 411:
Brunelleschi 285
What Manetti Thought He Saw 287
Afterword:
Manetti Stories: Between Brunelleschi Crypto-Albertianism and
and Alberti 296 the Oblivion of Building-in-Time 417
Brunelleschi, Virtuoso of the Art of
Building-in-Time to Its Limits 301 Notes 421
Brunelleschi at the East End of
Bibliography 458
Santa Maria del Fiore 1377-1446 307
Acknowledgments 472
The Cupola as Visible Form:
Index 475
The Rib Projects 1367-1432/6 310 Illustration credits 490
The Lantern Colossus 321
The Tribune Morte 330
