To Leon Battista Alberti

October’s Blogpost is dedicated to the great Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472). Here a random selection of buildings and environments I have encountered in recent years... I wonder what would you have thought of them? All I can say is that I have enjoyed many of his buildings, drawings and thoughts - 500 years later that is to say.

Guillermo Aranda-Mena

Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man.

Born: 14 February 1404, Genoa, Italy

Died: 25 April 1472, Rome, Italy

Built work: Santa Maria Novella, Palazzo Rucellai, Basilica di Santa Andrea in Mantova, Tempio di San Sebastiano in Mantova just to mention a few.

Known for: Architecture, Linguistics, Poetry

Zacatecas, México

"A man can do all things if he but wills them."

Manchester, England

"When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods."