On Architecture

Vitruvius, Richard Schofield (Translator), Robert Tavernor (Introduction by)

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Author
Vitruvius, Richard Schofield (Translator), Robert Tavernor (Introduction by)
Publish Date
2009-12-29
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
Penguin Classics
Number of Pages
440
Edition
1
ISBN-10
0141441682
ISBN-13
9780141441689
SKU
9780141441689

Description

In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on architecture to have survived, De architectura has been an invaluable source of information for scholars. The rediscovery of Vitruvius during the Renaissance greatly fuelled the revival of classicism during that and subsequent periods. Numerous architectural treatises were based in part or inspired by Vitruvius, beginning with Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria (1485).

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.