Vitruvius on Architecture

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Pub. Date: 2004-01-05
Publisher(s): The Monacelli Press
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Summary

In about 25 B.C. the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio presented to the emperor Augustus ten scrolls that contained everything he knew about architecture. Synthesizing his studies of earlier Greek writings as well as lessons drawn from his own design career, theTen Books on Architecturediscussed architectural practice and education; building materials; the correct proportions and elements of the Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian; the design of temples, public buildings, and private houses; and engineering and military planning. More than two thousand years later his masterwork stands as both the most comprehensive architectural text of antiquity and one of the most important design treatises ever written. Just as Vitruvius set out to catalog the rules and ideals of ancient Greek architecture, Thomas Gordon Smith inVitruvius on Architecturepresents the rules and ideals of Vitruvius himself. This volume contains the five books most relevant to contemporary architecture along with a wealth of visual material: 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.Vitruvius on Architectureis an exceptional accomplishment: a study as relevant to the present as Vitruvius's was to his own day and to architecture since.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Commentary 8(50)
From The Ten Books on Architecture
BOOK I
58(26)
BOOK III
84(28)
BOOK IV
112(36)
BOOK V
148(32)
BOOK VI
180(26)
Maps 206(2)
Elements of Architecture 208(5)
Glossary 213(6)
Notes 219(8)
Bibliography 227(5)
Illustration Credits 232

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