A fresh, innovative analysis of the five built works by the renowned Renaissance architect, Leon Battista Alberti, proposes a new relationship between form and meaning. Much has been written about Alberti's mantra regarding the concept of "part-whole" as one of the continuous conditions of architecture. While this fundamental theory has been repeated often in the history and theory of architecture, architects rarely challenged this idea. In the book "Rewriting Alberti," architect Peter Eisenman suggests that Alberti sparked a radical discussion beyond the "part-whole" dialogue presented in his "Ten Books." An in-depth analysis of Alberti's five built projects reveals a disconnect between the architect's buildings and his theoretical writings, proposing a new relationship between form and meaning based on the fragmentation of homogeneous space. "Rewriting Alberti" includes contributions from Pier Vittorio Aureli, Mario Carpo, and Daniel Sherer. Carpo, an architectural historian and critic, believes that Alberti's work introduced an idea of discipline as a semiotic system akin to modern computational logics. Inspired by this, Sherer, an architectural historian, reevaluates the readings of critic Manfredo Tafuri on Alberti, while architect and theorist Aureli draws from Alberti to propose an alternative idea of architectural work. Here, in one volume, are four different approaches (and over 60 drawings) looking back at the principles of architectural signs and semiotics, and forward to understand how history informs architecture today. Pages: 248, Dimensions: 13.7x13.7cm