Sublime

break down the elements of a building program into separate parts, making a house into a metaphorical village.

Milan had been ravaged in the early 1480s by three years of the bubonic plague, which killed close to one-third of its inhabitants. With his scientific instincts, Leonardo realized that the plague was spread by unsanitary conditions and that the health of the citizens was related to the health of their city. He did not focus on marginal

Vitruvius’s descriptions of human proportions would inspire Leonardo, as part of the anatomy studies he had just begun in 1489, to compile a similar set of measurements. More broadly, Vitruvius’s belief that the proportions of man are analogous to those of a well-conceived temple—and to the macrocosm of the world—became central to Leonardo’s

His design approach at CAM was a curious mix; at times it resembled that of a Renaissance sculptor, carving away at the block until a form emerges.

solve architectural problems in a way that made an artistic statement at, he hoped, no cost to functional utility.