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2. De architectura - Wikipedia

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   A 1521 Italian language edition of De architectura, translated and illustrated by Cesare Cesariano Manuscript of Vitruvius; parchment dating from about 1390. De architectura (On architecture, published as Ten Books on Architecture) is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus ...

3. Vitruvius - Wikipedia

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   Vitruvius is the author of De architectura, libri decem, known today as The Ten Books on Architecture, [27] a treatise written in Latin on architecture, dedicated to the emperor Augustus. In the preface of Book I, Vitruvius dedicates his writings to giving personal knowledge of the quality of buildings to the emperor.

4. Daniele Barbaro - Wikipedia

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   [10] [7] (1545) Edited an edition of Ermolao Barbaro's Compendium scientiae naturalis. (1556) An Italian translation with extended commentary of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture, published as Dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio. [2] [8] The work was dedicated to Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este, patron of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli. [6] [7]

5. Firmness, commodity, and delight - Wikipedia

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   The order of words chosen by Vitruvius, with structural integrity coming before the utility, can be explained in two ways. Either the emphasis on firmness was driven by an understanding of architecture as an "art of building", or by the fact that buildings frequently outlive their initial purpose, so "functions, customs, ... and fashions ... are only transitory" (Auguste Perret), and ...

6. Architecture - Wikipedia

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   Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. [3] It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, [4] planning, designing, and constructing buildings or other structures. [5]

7. Architectural theory - Wikipedia

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   Vitruvius was a Roman writer, architect, and engineer active in the 1st century BC. He was the most prominent architectural theorist in the Roman Empire known today, having written De architectura (known today as The Ten Books of Architecture), a treatise written in Latin and Greek on architecture

8. The Primitive Hut - Wikipedia

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   An illustration of the primitive hut by Charles Dominique Eisen was the frontispiece for the second edition of Laugier's Essay on Architecture (1755). The frontispiece was arguably one of the most famous images in the history of architecture; it helped to make the essay more accessible and consequently it was more widely received by the public.

9. File:Part of Vitruvius's De Architectura in the alphabet of ...

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