UID:
kobvindex_INT0001276
Format:
xvi, 333 pages
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illustrations
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28 x 21 cm
Edition:
Reprint
ISBN:
9780521002929
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9780521553643
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0521002923
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0521553644
Uniform Title:
De architectura
Content:
"De architectura (On architecture, published as Ten Books on Architecture) is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus, as a guide for building projects. As the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity, it has been regarded since the Renaissance as the first book on architectural theory, as well as a major source on the canon of classical architecture. It contains a variety of information on Greek and Roman buildings, as well as prescriptions for the planning and design of military camps, cities, and structures both large (aqueducts, buildings, baths, harbours) and small (machines, measuring devices, instruments). Since Vitruvius published before the development of cross vaulting, domes, concrete, and other innovations associated with Imperial Roman architecture, his ten books are not regarded as a source of information on these hallmarks of Roman building design and technology."
Content:
"The new edition of the only architectural treatise from antiquity demonstrates the range of Vitruvius' style and includes examples from archeological sites discovered since World War II and not previously published in English language translations. 110 diagrams."
Content:
"The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped humanist architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. This new, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture is the first to be published for an English-language audience in more than half a century. Expressing the range of Vitruvius' style, the translation, along with the critical commentary and illustrations, aims to shape a new image of the Vitruvius who emerges as an inventive and creative thinker, rather than the normative summarizer, as he was characterized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance."
Note:
EDITORIAL NOTE: hardback edition published 1999, paperback edition first published 2001
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INDEX NOTE: includes index.
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PART I. Translator's Preface ; List of manuscripts and printed editions ; Illustrator's preface -- PART II: The Translation: Book 1 ; Book 2 ; Book 3 ; Book 4 ; Book 5 ; Book 6 ; Book 7 ; Book 8 ; Book 9 ; Book 10 -- PART III. Commentary and Illustrations
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LANGUAGE NOTE: translated from Latin; original title: De architectura
Language:
English
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