An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius

Name: An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius
Author: Vitruvius Pollio

by Vitruvius Pollio

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An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2009-01-24

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Architecture -- Early works to 1800

About the author

Vitruvius Pollio

A Roman architect and engineer from the 1st century BCE, best known for the ten-book treatise De architectura, one of the most influential works on architecture ever written. His ideas on proportion, materials, machines, and city planning shaped how later generations understood classical building and design.

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