Ten Books on Architecture - Couverture souple

Vitruvius, Vitruvius

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0486206459 ISBN 13 : 9780486206455

Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 2000

Synopsis

The oldest and most influential book ever written on architecture, this volume describes the classic principles of symmetry, harmony, and proportion as well as the ancients' methods, materials, and aesthetics. Authoritative translation.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Translated by Morris Hicky Morgan, Ph.D., LL.D. Show Excerpt your hands, my devotion continuing unchanged as I remembered him inclined me to support you. And so with Marcus Aurelius, Publius Minidius, and Gnaeus Cornelius, I was ready to supply and repair ballistae, scorpiones, and other artillery, and I have received rewards for good service with them. After your first bestowal of these upon me, you continued to renew them on the recommendation of your sister. 3. Owing to this favour I need have no fear of want to the end of my life, and being thus laid under obligation I began to write this work for you, because I saw that you have built and are now building extensively, and that in future also you will take care that our public and private buildings shall be worthy to go down to posterity by the side of your other splendid achievements. I have drawn up definite rules to enable you, by observing them, to have personal knowledge of the quality both of existing buildings and of those which are yet to be constructed. For in the following books I have disclosed a

Biographie de l'auteur

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (late 1st century B.C.), was a Roman military architect and engineer, and an expert in ballistic machines in particular.Robert Tavernor studied architecture in London, Rome and Cambridge and practices as a consultant architect. He was professor of Architecture at the universities of Edinburgh and Bath, and is currently Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Richard Schofield read Classics at Oxford in the late 1960s, then architectural history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. After working at the University of Nottingham for many years, he moved to the Istituto universitario di architettura di Venezia in 1997, where he is the Professor of the History of Architecture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dover Publications Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0486206459
• ISBN 13: 9780486206455
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 331
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible