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| Leon Battista Alberti, Tempio Malatestiano, 1450 |
Alberti spoke of several of his mental exercises to "dispel anxiety: mentally composing very complex and magnificent architecture... It helped to rationally comprehend the world, but not dominate it. Rationality and architecture itself, wrote Alberti, could provide only a temporary refuge to “ward off anguish” without being able to overcome it.
- citing Leon Battista Alberti, In Profugiorum ab aerumna libri III [The three books on the refuge from mental anguish] from Amir Djalali, Common Space: Politics and the Production of Architectural Knowledge
