The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio: In Ten Books (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108070522)

Active in the first century BCE, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote his influential architectural treatise in ten books. It remained the standard manual for architects into the medieval period. The topics which Vitruvius considered essential are diverse, including aspects of design as well as geometry and engineering. In the nineteenth century, the English architect and author Joseph Gwilt (1784-1863) won greater acclaim for the books he published than for the buildings he designed. His most celebrated achievement, The Encyclopaedia of Architecture (1842), is also reissued in this series. Gwilt's one-volume translation of Vitruvius's Latin text was first published in 1826. Supplanting previous versions, this work was long regarded as the standard edition in English. It contains a brief life of Vitruvius as well as an annotated list of previous editions since the fifteenth century. A number of detailed illustrative plates accompany the text.

Author: Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
ISBN-10: 1108070523
ISBN-13: 9781108070522
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/02/2015
Pages: 478
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.81lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.96d