VITRUVIUS 'TEN BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE': a New English Translation with Commentary and Illustrations.(Brief Article)(Review)

The Architectural Review | December 1, 1999| | Copyright

By Thomas Noble Howe and lngrid D. Rowland, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999. [pounds]50

For better and worse, architects owe their existence to Vitruvius. His De Architectura, arranged in ten chapters, or 'books', has been upheld for centuries as the architect's Bible. It has determined what architecture is, and consequently how architects should be educated to perform their role in society. Yet Vitruvius has achieved such influence, not because of his elegance as a writer, or his excellence as a thinker and designer (it has usually been held that he was ...

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