Digital Alberti: Tradition and innovation in the architectural theory and practice in Portugal

This research project is a celebration and an innovation. A celebration in the sense of commemorating the order given by King John III, in mid XVI century, to André de Resende to translate Alberti’s De re aedicatoria to the Portuguese language.An innovation in the sense of producing, for the first time, anintelligent computational environment to understand the culturalimpact of this treatise on classical architecture in Portugal and abroad.Research developes in six approaches: Alberti and the De reaedicatoria; New digital technologies; Grammar of sacred spaces;Grammar of column systematization; Architecture for a modernhumanism; The virtual reality of Albertian Architecture.