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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. This work, known today as Ten Books on Architecture, is the most comprehensive architectural book written in antiquity and a seminal volume in Western culture. Vitruvius on Architecture presents a new translation of the five books most relevant to contemporary architecture and new drawings and watercolors that illustrate Vitruvius's methods of proportion and composition. Also included are numerous photographs of historic architecture from Greece, Italy,…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Approximately 2,025 years ago, an aged Roman architect named Vitruvius wrote down on ten scrolls everything he knew about architecture. This work, known today as Ten Books on Architecture, is the most comprehensive architectural book written in antiquity and a seminal volume in Western culture. Vitruvius on Architecture presents a new translation of the five books most relevant to contemporary architecture and new drawings and watercolors that illustrate Vitruvius's methods of proportion and composition. Also included are numerous photographs of historic architecture from Greece, Italy, Turkey, and throughout the Mediterranean region.
This volume contains the five books most relevant to contemporary architecture: photographs of ancient structures from Greece, Italy, and Turkey; related sculptures, frescoes, and reliefs; hypothetical re-creations of Vitruvius's now-lost illustrations; and a series of exquisitely rendered watercolor plates based on his descriptions.
Autorenporträt
Thomas Gordon Smith is a professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame and principal of his own classical architectural firm, Thomas Gordon Smith Architects. He is the author of Classical Architecture: Rule and Invention.