TY  - BOOK
AU  - McEwen,Indra Kagis
TI  - Vitruvius: writing the body of architecture 
SN  - 9780262279451
AV  - NA2515 .M38 2003eb
U1  - 720 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Vitruvius Pollio.
KW  - De architectura (Vitruvius Pollio)
KW  - fast
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Ouvrages avant 1800
KW  - ARCHITECTURE
KW  - Reference
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Professional Practice
KW  - Adaptive Reuse & Renovation
KW  - Buildings
KW  - General
KW  - Bouwkunst
KW  - gtt
KW  - Didactisch proza
KW  - Latijn
KW  - ARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/General
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Early works
KW  - Vertalingen (vorm)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-476) and index
N2  - "Vitruvius's De architectura is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, and until the eighteenth century it was the text to which all other architectural treatises referred. While European classicists have focused on the factual accuracy of the text itself, English-speaking architects and architectural theorists have viewed it as a timeless source of valuable metaphors. Departing from both perspectives, Indra Kagis McEwen examines the work's meaning and significance in its own time. Vitruvius dedicated De architectura to his patron Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, whose rise to power inspired its composition near the end of the first century B.C. McEwen argues that the imperial project of world dominion shaped Vitruvius's purpose in writing what he called "the whole body of architecture." Devoting each chapter to a different Vitruvian "body," McEwen addresses such topics as the relation of the book and its author to Augustus, the role of beauty in forging the new world order, and the nature and unprecedented extent of Augustan building programs."--Jacket
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