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 the only major work on architecture to survive from...

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 not only with building methods and materials but also sought to...

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born ca. 80/70 BC?; died ca. 25 BC) was a Roman writer, architect and engineer (possibly praefectus fabrum or architectus armamentarius of the apparitor status group), active in the 1st century...

ACOUSTIC AND MUSICAL IMAGERY play a distinct if forgotten role in myth and legend. The name 'Jack' in a nursery tale, for example, can be a clue to a story told with the aid of a plucked string instrument, an allusion echoed in the...

4362 Vitruvius--Writing the Body of Architecture, by Indra Kagis McEwen. MIT Press, 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge MA 02142-1407, 2003. 493 pp., ill., index. Price: $US 39.95. Vitruvius' Ten Books is the only substantial contemporary treatise surviving on the architecture of Ancient...