Abstract
Architectural constitution may be an organization of all factors in design, I think so and in this report I'll make the subject the formal method of this organization. Alberti's distinctive quality on the method of design are concluded in following 5 points. 1) It is suggested that the design of a whole architecture has to be decided completely before the start of construction. 2) A whole architecture is constituted by many parts. And each part is required, criticized and observed as each existing matter, in judgement of use, strength and beauty. 3) The constitution of these parts relats to following three methods. a) Old Roman systems of construction and "order", to utilize them in real architecture. b) Proportion and number, to fix harmonious form. c) Site and position, to be right and proper part. In general, results of these three methods are only local, not whole. 4) Contour lines of these parts (2) or outcome of local constitution of parts (3), which may be mutually independent, are visually connected and harmonized in an elevation (lineamentum), and finally are examined in a model. It is a new method that a process of harmonizing elevation is required in the complete design. 5) But next important process remains in freedom of architect. So that "What part? How many? etc.", these creative imageries on a whole architecture aren't said in his theory. As a theory, he says only a local method, and the character of expression as a whole.
