Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture

by Indra Kagis McEwen

Book Overview

A historical study of Vitruvius's De architectura, showing that his purpose in writing "the whole body of architecture" was shaped by the imperial Roman project of world domination.

Vitruvius's De architectura is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, and until the eighteenth century it was the text to which all other architectural treatises referred. While European classicists have focused...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026263306X
• ISBN13: 9780262633062
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher