nes of the Middle Ages and a return to classical learning and a different human orientation.
             For architecture, a treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti suggested the way human needs were to be served by buildings after this time. Alberti recognizes that buildings must serve their human occupants or users. This can be as simple a proposition as considering the way human beings will react to a structure, as opposed to earlier views in the medieval period which related the building more to God and practicality than to man in many cases. Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman cite the way the courtyard of the Palazzo Medici can be distinguished from its medieval predecessors as an example:
             It is large, square, at the center of the block, ornamented with an iconographically integrated program of sculpture in relief and in the round, and framed by a twelve-columned arcuated loggia. Its conspicuous grandeur and conscious display of power, wealth, and intellect were in marked contrast to the small and irregular courtyard of the Palazzo Davanzati--primarily a utilitarian area used as a shaft for light and air and to house the well and staircase. (Trachtenberg and Hyman 291)
             Everything Trachtenberg and Hyman state about the Palazzo Medici indicates that it was built for human beings both to convey various symbols and to serve as an object to be viewed r
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