Included in the New York Times's Best Art Books of 2022 "Is there any application today of Renaissance classicism to our glutted cities, anything the architect of St. Peter's Basilica can teach builders of condos and duty-free concessions? Pier Paolo Tamburelli, an architect and editor of the now defunct cult magazine San Rocco, insists in this spirited treatise that Donato Bramante's spatial innovations can propel a new practice of "architecture as
public art." Strange, sometimes flippant, as conversant with Rem Koolhaas as with Pope Leo X, this book is a rare effort to rethink our present deadlocks through historical models – and its ironic Neo-Classicism is beautifully buttressed by Bas Princen's spare photographs of Bramante nerve centers: Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie, where Leonardo painted "The Last Supper," or the cloisters of Rome's Santa Maria della Pace."
- The New York Times "
On Bramante is a dense, rich, strange, and provocative book."
-The Architect's Newspaper "A major event."
-Arquitectura Viva
