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McEwen, Indra Kagis. Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture.(Book Review)
The Review of Metaphysics
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December 1, 2004|
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MCEWEN, Indra Kagis. Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, 2003. x + 493 pp. Cloth, $39.95--This extended, provocative, and extensively documented meditation addresses Vitruvius' intention in producing the first treatise on architecture, the only one surviving front antiquity, which was dedicated to Caesar Augustus. McEwen argues that in assembling various preexisting fragments into a coherent whole and putting that whole into words to produce "the whole body of architecture," Vitruvius is producing the counterpart to Augustus' program, ...
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