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Diagrammatic Plans of Hospital Schemes: A) The Cross-Axial Scheme, Project for the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan by Filarete, 1460s B) The Radial Scheme, Project for The Hôtel-Dieu in Paris by Antoine Petit, 1774 C) Pavilion Scheme, Design for a Hospital at La Roquette, A Suburb of Paris, by Bernard Poyet, 1787

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Antonio Averlino, il Filarete, Adam shelters himself from falling rainwater, origin of the primitive hut, in Trattato di Architettura, c. 1464.

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humanist city planning!

"Sforzinda" is one of the first ideal city designed in the 15th century by renaissance architect Filarete (aka Antonio Averlino) as part of his "Trattato di Architettura"

allegedly Filarete was inspired to by Leon Battista Alberti's architectural treatise "De Re Aedificatoria"

note: each tip of the 8-point star had a defense tower!

we can also clearly see the renaissance fascination (and perhaps obsession) with geometry. its quite cool

#architecture history #filarete #renaissance

Filarete, Tabernacle door with the Man of Sorrows, 1440 x

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Ca' Granda Milan, Italy 1456–1805 Filarete (1400–1469), architect Guiniforte Solari (1429–1481), architect Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (1447–1522), architect Francesco Maria Richini (1584–1658), architect Fabio Mangone (1587–1629), architect Adam Caruso (1962–), drafter