Vitruvius : writing the body of architecture /

• Main Author: McEwen, Indra Kagis
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �2003.
• Subjects: Vitruvius Pollio. > De architectura.; De architectura (Vitruvius Pollio); Architecture > Early works to 1800.; ARCHITECTURE > Reference.; ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.; ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.; ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > General.; Architecture.; Bouwkunst.; Didactisch proza.; Latijn.; Electronic books.; Early works.; Vertalingen (vorm)

"Vitruvius's De architectura is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, and until the eighteenth century it was the text to which all other architectural treatises referred. While European classicists have focused on the factual accuracy of the text itself,...