02625nam 2200397 450 99619923740331620231103112139.00-674-99309-8(CKB)3820000000012259(NjHacI)993820000000012259(EXLCZ)99382000000001225920231103d1934 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOn ArchitectureVolume II /Vitruvius Pollio ; Frank Stephen Granger (translator)Cambridge, MA :Harvard University Press,1934.1 online resource (430 pages) illustrationsLoeb classical library ;280Vitruvius (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.Loeb classical library ;280.ArchitectureEarly works to 1800ArchitecturePhilosophyArchitectureArchitecturePhilosophy.720Vitruvius Pollio8237Granger Frank StephenNjHacINjHaclBOOK996199237403316De architectura18291UNISA