Vitruvius
d. c. 25 B.C.
Roman Architect and Engineer
Vitruvius is best known as the author of De architectura, the first attempt at a comprehensive study of architectural practice. This manual dealt n...
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Vitruvius's treatise De architectura (On Architecture, ca. 30-20 B.C.), an architectural and engineering compendium in ten books (each about thirty pages long), is the author's only known work and is ...
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