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).
| ISBN: | 9780141441689 |
| Publication date: | 24th September 2009 |
| Author: | Vitruvius Pollio, Richard V Schofield |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 440 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Genres: |
Individual architects and architectural firms History of art |
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).
On Architecture features in the following genres: Individual architects and architectural firms, History of art
On Architecture is available in Paperback
On Architecture was written by Vitruvius Pollio, Richard V Schofield and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
On Architecture has 440 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Classics series
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