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Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture'
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For the first time in more than half a century, Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture is being published in English. The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the Architecture libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. Demonstrating the range of Vitruvius' style, this new edition includes examples from archaeological sites discovered since World War II and not previously published in English language translations. Rowland's new translation and Howe's critical commentary and illustrations provide a new image of Vitruvius, who emerges as an inventive and creative thinker, rather than the normative summarizer, as he was characterized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ingrid D. Rowland is an associate professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. Thomas Noble Howe is a professor in the Department of Art at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.
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The Ten Books on Architecture
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The most important book ever written on architecture. Early Roman aesthetics, technology, classical orders, site selection, all other aspects. Morgan translation.
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Vitruvius: On Architecture, Volume II, Books 6-10 (Loeb Classical Library No. 280)
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Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial artillery or military engines, and was architect of at least one unit of buildings for Augustus in the reconstruction of Rome. Late in life and in ill health he completed, sometime before 27 BC, De Architectura which, after its rediscovery in the fifteenth century, was influential enough to be studied by architects from the early Renaissance to recent times.</p>
In On Architecture Vitruvius adds to the tradition of Greek theory and practice the results of his own experience. The contents of this treatise in ten books are as follows. Book 1: Requirements for an architect; town planning; design, cities, aspects; temples. 2: Materials and their treatment. Greek systems. 3: Styles. Forms of Greek temples. Ionic. 4: Styles. Corinthian, Ionic, Doric; Tuscan; altars. 5: Other public buildings (fora, basilicae, theatres, colonnades, baths, harbours). 6: Sites and planning, especially of houses. 7: Construction of pavements, roads, mosaic floors, vaults. Decoration (stucco, wall painting, colours). 8: Hydraulic engineering; water supply; aqueducts. 9: Astronomy. Greek and Roman discoveries; signs of the zodiac, planets, moon phases, constellations, astrology, gnomon, sundials. 10: Machines for war and other purposes.</p>
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The Foundation of Architecture in The West.......1998-06-13
Vitruvius is the most important architect in the history of western civilization. Though his theories and practices may seem simple or out of date considering modern techiniques, Vitruvius' influence throughout the past 2000 years since his time is immesurable. The great architects of Roman times pointed to Vitruvius as irrefutable source for their architecture. Throughout the Renaissance the architects built upon Vitruvius' Ten Books and wrote a few updates, though no revisions. Bramante, the architect of St. Peters in Rome relied upon Vitruvius for the proportions for this masterpiece. Today only a few architecture schools refer back to this work of genius, notable among these is U. of Notre Dame, an island in the stormy seas of modernity.
The latest translation of Vitruvius.......1996-11-19
This book is the latest in a long line of translations of one of the worlds most important architectural
treaties. It is a careful and thorough translation, in comparison to the former by Hickey Morgen,
which misses many points due to the author's minimal knowledge of architectural parctice in the age
of vitruvius, and before. I do recommend this book to all architects, and students interested in this
pivotal book.
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Vitruvius. The Ten Books on Architecture: Translated by Morris Hicky Morgan
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This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1914 edition by Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
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Vitruvius: On Architecture, Volume I, Books 1-5 (Loeb Classical Library No. 251)
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Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial artillery or military engines, and was architect of at least one unit of buildings for Augustus in the reconstruction of Rome. Late in life and in ill health he completed, sometime before 27 BC, De Architectura which, after its rediscovery in the fifteenth century, was influential enough to be studied by architects from the early Renaissance to recent times.</p>
In On Architecture Vitruvius adds to the tradition of Greek theory and practice the results of his own experience. The contents of this treatise in ten books are as follows. Book 1: Requirements for an architect; town planning; design, cities, aspects; temples. 2: Materials and their treatment. Greek systems. 3: Styles. Forms of Greek temples. Ionic. 4: Styles. Corinthian, Ionic, Doric; Tuscan; altars. 5: Other public buildings (fora, basilicae, theatres, colonnades, baths, harbours). 6: Sites and planning, especially of houses. 7: Construction of pavements, roads, mosaic floors, vaults. Decoration (stucco, wall painting, colours). 8: Hydraulic engineering; water supply; aqueducts. 9: Astronomy. Greek and Roman discoveries; signs of the zodiac, planets, moon phases, constellations, astrology, gnomon, sundials. 10: Machines for war and other purposes.</p>
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Ten Books on Architecture
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