Ten books on architecture

by Vitruvius Pollio

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Title Statements

Full title :Ten books on architecture / Vitruvius ; translated by Ingrid D. Rowland ; commentary and illustrations by Thomas Noble Howe ; with additional commentary by Ingrid D. Rowland and Michael J. Dewar.

Summary

"The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, 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. Extremely influential in the formation of the medieval and modern concept of a broad liberal arts education as the basis for responsible professionals, this work is remarkable also because over half of its content deals with aspects of Hellenistic art, science and technology, music theory, law, artillery, siege machinery, proportion and philosophy, among other topics." "This new, critical edition of Vitruvius's Ten Books on Architecture is the first to be published for an English-language audience in more than half a century."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1999.
Edition:[New, critical ed.]

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:1999.

The Physical Object

Description:xvi, 333 pages : : illustrations ; : 29 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0521553644, 9780521553643
oclc:ocm43076060
LC Classification:NA2515
Dewey Decimal:720

Subjects

18.46 ancient Latin literature 21.62 history of architecture Architecture Architecture -- Early works to 1800 Architecture -- Ouvrages avant 1800 Bouwkunst Didactical prose (texts) Early works Early works to 1800 Translations (form) Vitruvius Pollio