Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture'

A new, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture.

Vitruvius (Author), Ingrid D. Rowland (Edited by), Thomas Noble Howe (Edited by)

9780521002929, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 15 January 2001

352 pages, 110 b/w illus.
27.7 x 20.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.82 kg

'I would recommend anyone interested in ancient architecture to buy a copy of this volume for the commentary alone.' Ian Campbell, Burlington Magazine

The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped humanist architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. This new, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture is the first to be published for an English-language audience in more than half a century. Expressing the range of Vitruvius' style, the translation, along with the critical commentary and illustrations, aims to shape a new image of the Vitruvius who emerges as an inventive and creative thinker, rather than the normative summarizer, as he was characterized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Part I. Translator's Preface: List of manuscripts and printed editions
Illustrator's preface
Part II: The Translation: Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 5
Book 6
Book 7
Book 8
Book 9
Book 10
Part III. Commentary and Illustrations.

Subject Areas: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA], European history [HBJD], Theory of architecture [AMA], History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE [ACG]