In the history of building, Pietro di Giacomo Cataneo is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Pietro di Giacomo Cataneo as Architect known for writing architectural theory books (1510–1569).
Pietro di Giacomo Cataneo was born at Siena in 1510. 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 mathematician, architect and engineer.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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.
Pietro di Giacomo Cataneo died in 1569, aged 59. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
