On architecture

Author(s)

• Vitruvius Pollio
• Granger, Frank

Bibliographic Information

On architecture

Vitruvius ; edited from the Harleian manuscript 2767 and translated into English by Frank Granger

（The Loeb classical library, 251, 280）

W. Heinemann , G.P. Putnam, 1931-1934

• 1 : us
• 1 : uk
• 2 : us
• 2 : uk

Other Title

De architectura

Vitruvius on architecture

Note

Latin text and English translation on opposite pages

Author statements varies slightly in later printings

Later printing published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995 printing by Harvard University Press only

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Contents: 1. Books I-V -- 2. Books VI-X

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

1 : us ISBN 9780674992771

Description

The Renaissance man avant la lettre. Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial artillery or military engines, and was architect of at least one unit of buildings for Augustus in the reconstruction of Rome. Late in life and in ill health he completed, sometime before 27 BC, De Architectura which, after its rediscovery in the fifteenth century, was influential enough to be studied by architects from the early Renaissance to recent times. In On Architecture Vitruvius adds to the tradition of Greek theory and practice the results of his own experience. The contents of this treatise in ten books are as follows. Book 1: Requirements for an architect; town planning; design, cities, aspects; temples. 2: Materials and their treatment. Greek systems. 3: Styles. Forms of Greek temples. Ionic. 4: Styles. Corinthian, Ionic, Doric; Tuscan; altars. 5: Other public buildings (fora, basilicae, theaters, colonnades, baths, harbors). 6: Sites and planning, especially of houses. 7: Construction of pavements, roads, mosaic floors, vaults. Decoration (stucco, wall painting, colors). 8: Hydraulic engineering; water supply; aqueducts. 9: Astronomy. Greek and Roman discoveries; signs of the zodiac, planets, moon phases, constellations, astrology, gnomon, sundials. 10: Machines for war and other purposes.

Volume

2 : us ISBN 9780674993099

Description

Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial artillery or military engines, and was architect of at least one unit of buildings for Augustus in the reconstruction of Rome. Late in life and in ill health he completed, sometime before 27 BCE, De Architectura which, after its rediscovery in the fifteenth century, was influential enough to be studied by architects from the early Renaissance to recent times. In On Architecture Vitruvius adds to the tradition of Greek theory and practice the results of his own experience. The contents of this treatise in ten books are as follows. Book 1: Requirements for an architect; town planning; design, cities, aspects; temples. 2: Materials and their treatment. Greek systems. 3: Styles. Forms of Greek temples. Ionic. 4: Styles. Corinthian, Ionic, Doric; Tuscan; altars. 5: Other public buildings (fora, basilicae, theatres, colonnades, baths, harbours). 6: Sites and planning, especially of houses. 7: Construction of pavements, roads, mosaic floors, vaults. Decoration (stucco, wall painting, colours). 8: Hydraulic engineering; water supply; aqueducts. 9: Astronomy. Greek and Roman discoveries; signs of the zodiac, planets, moon phases, constellations, astrology, gnomon, sundials. 10: Machines for war and other purposes.

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Details

• NCID: BA00894354
• ISBN:
  • 0674992776
  • 0434992518
  • 0674993098
  • 0434992801
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: englat
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: London,New York
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 17 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : NA2515
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Architecture -- Early works to 1800
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00254115