Giovan Battista Aleotti is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Giovan Battista Aleotti as architect (1546–1636).
Giovan Battista Aleotti was born in 1546. His recorded nationality is Italy.
The Renaissance made the architect an individual with a signature, a theory and a reputation, working from drawings rather than on site.
He is recorded as architect and military engineer.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Italy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Giovan Battista Aleotti died in 1636, aged 90. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
