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In 'De architectura' (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on architecture to have survived, 'De architectura' has been an invaluable source of information for scholars.Read More

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  • Foyles

    In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on architecture to have survived, De architectura has been an invaluable source of information for scholars. The rediscovery of Vitruvius during the Renaissance greatly fuelled the revival of classicism during that and subsequent periods. Numerous architectural treatises were based in part or inspired by Vitruvius, beginning with Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria (1485).

  • BookDepository

    On Architecture : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141441689 : 0141441682 : 16 Jun 2011 : In "De architectura"" (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on architecture to have survived, ""De architectura"" has been an invaluable source of information for scholars."

  • Waterstones

    In ''De architectura'' (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on architec

  • Blackwell

    The only treatise on architecture to have survived from Roman times, Vitruvius' On Architecture provides a fascinating picture of how the Romans planned and built their great structures and cities. Dedicated to Augustus, it sets out all the...

  • Penguin

    In De architectura ( c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions.

  • Pickabook

    Vitruvius, Robert Tavernor (Trans), Richard Schofield (Trans)

  • 0141441682
  • 9780141441689
  • Vitruvius
  • 24 September 2009
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 464
  • 1
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