Alberti Digital – Tradição e inovação na teoria e prática da arquitectura em Portugal

This article describes the class Alberti Digital taught at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon (FAUTL) and later in the Department of Architecture, University of Coimbra (Darq / UC), centered in interpretation and exploitation of Alberti`s treatise Da Arte Edificatoria where students had to develop a visual computer program with the algorithms present in the treatise to generate virtual and physical models using different digital fabrication techniques, allowing them to gain skills in the use of computational resources and knowledge of history and theory related with Renaissance architecture and the principles of Alberti in particular.