On digital architecture

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Treatise on digital architecture Hovestadt’s treatise strictly follows the model of the famous treatises by Vitruvius ( De architectura ) and Alberti ( De re aedificatoria ),based on the supposition that we find ourselves in a comparablesituation today. Vitruvius and Alberti expressed the meaning ofarchitecture in their Roman antiquity and the Renaissance.Hovestadt has done the same for the present day, incorporatingconsiderations of physics, mathematics, technology, literature, andphilosophy. Books 1 to 3 deal with the role of the architect and the objectivity of architecture. Books 4 to 6 address the modalities of speaking about and encoding the secret, the public, and the private. Books7 to 10 are dedicated to actual digital artificialintelligence, natural communication, gnomonics, and cultural heritage.