Vitruvius: On Architecture, Volume II, Books 6-10 (Loeb Classical Library No. 280) - Hardcover

Vitruvius

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674993098 ISBN 13: 9780674993099

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1934

Synopsis

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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About the Author:

Frank Stephen Granger (1864–1936) was Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1934
• ISBN 10: 0674993098
• ISBN 13: 9780674993099
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448