Aus dem Inhalt:
1. Kurt W. Forster:Humanismus von gestern und Skepsis von morgen
2. Brian Vickers:Alberti und die humanistische Rhetorik
3. Mark Jarzombek:Das Enigma von Leon Battista Albertis "dissimulatio"
4. Kornelia Imesch Oehry:Misogynie im literarischen und architekturtheoretischen Werk Leon Battista Albertis
5. Hubert Locher:Albertis Erfindung des "Gemäldes" aus dem Geist der Antike: der Traktat "De pictura"
6. Oskar Bätschmann:Leon Battista Alberti: "De statua"
7. Francoise Choay:Albertis anthropologische Theorie der Architektur
8. Werner Oechslin:Albertis Neubestimmung einer Aufgabe der Architekturtheorie
9. Hubertus Günther:Alberti und Flavio Biondo
10. Howard Burns:Albertis Umgang mit der Antike
11. Kurt W. Forster:Alberti in der Stadt

Kurt W. Forster studied art history, literature and archaeology at the universities in Berlin, Munich and Zurich, rounding out his studies in Florence and London. He taught at Yale University (1960-67), Stanford University (1967-82) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1982-84). He was the first Director of the newly established Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Santa Monica (1984-92), where he inaugured a broadly based programme of research and publications. From 1992 he has been Director of the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich. Forster's research focuses on the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance and the 20th century.