Vitruvius on Architecture

by: Smith, Th.G.

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Approximately 2,025 years ago, an aged Roman architect named Vitruvius wrote down on ten scrolls everything he knew about architecture. He presented this work, known today as »Ten Books on Architecture,« to Emperor Augustus in the hope of changing what he perceived as a rampant lack of professionalism and educational rigor in the practice of architecture. The »Ten Books,« the most comprehensive architectural book written in antiquity and the only such work to survive, is a seminal volume in Western culture and continues to be an important resource.
»Viturvius on Architecture« presents not only a new translation of the five books most relevant to contemporary architecture but also new drawings and watercolors that illustrate, for the first time since ancient days, Vitruvis's methods of proportion and composition. Architect and educator Thomas Gordon Smith re-created these finely detailed illustrations directly from the text. Also included are many photographs of historic architecture from Greece, Italy, Turkey, and throughout the Mediterranean region. This new edition of an ancient tome is intended for practical application, as an indispensable reference for classical studies, and as an incontrovertible example of the enduring value of the architecture of antiquity for contemporary education and practice.

Contents
Commentary 8
From The Ten Books on Architecture
Book I 58
Book III 84
Book IV 112
Book V 148
Book VI 180
Maps 206
Elements of Architecture 208
Glossary 212
Notes 218
Bibliography 226
Illustration Credits 232

Subjects:
Architecture
Architecture Early works to 1800
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800
Early works
Englisch
Übersetzung
Vitruvius
Vitruvius ca. v1. Jh
v Treatises

Emendation by Stephen Kellogg of the English translation of The ten books on architecture by Morris Hicky Morgan ; new renderings by Thomas Gordon Smith and Matthew Aaron Rosenshine

Translated from the Latin

232 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm
 

Vitruvius on Architecture

by: Smith, Th.G.

• ISBN-13: 9781885254986 / 978-1-885254-98-6
• ISBN-03: 1885254989 / 1-885254-98-9
• The Monacelli Press, New York, 2003

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