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    Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture' by Vitruvius; Rowland, Ingrid D.; Howe, Thomas Noble;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number and title Ten Books
    • Edition number New ed
    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 15 January 2001

    • ISBN 9780521002929
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages352 pages
    • Size 277x208x23 mm
    • Weight 820 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 110 b/w illus.
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    Short description:

    A new, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture.

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    Long description:

    The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped humanist architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. This new, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture is the first to be published for an English-language audience in more than half a century. Expressing the range of Vitruvius' style, the translation, along with the critical commentary and illustrations, aims to shape a new image of the Vitruvius who emerges as an inventive and creative thinker, rather than the normative summarizer, as he was characterized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

    ' ... this is an important publishing event in the study of architectural history. With Vitruvius now made less obscure, we can see with much greater clarity the inherent flexibility of the Classical system at the time when there was no such thing as Classical architecture - only architecture.' Architects Journal

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    Table of Contents:

    Part I. Translator's Preface: List of manuscripts and printed editions; Illustrator's preface; Part II: The Translation: Book 1; Book 2; Book 3; Book 4; Book 5; Book 6; Book 7; Book 8; Book 9; Book 10; Part III. Commentary and Illustrations.

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