Title: Vitruvius: the ten books on architecture.
Authors: Vitruvius Pollio.; Morgan, M. H. 1859-1910; Morgan, M. H. 1859-1910,; Morgan, M. H. 1859-1910,
Publisher: Dover Publications
Year: 1960
Subjects: Architecture Early works to 1800
Contents: Book 1. The education of the architect -- Fundamental principles of architecture -- Departments of architecture -- The site of a city -- The city walls -- Directions of the streets; with remarks on the winds -- Sites for public buildings -- Book 2. The origin of the dwelling house -- On the primordial substance according to the physicists -- Brick -- Sand -- Lime -- Pozzolana -- Stone -- Methods of building walls -- Timber -- Highland and lowland fir -- Book 3. On symmetry: in temples and in the human body -- Classification of temples -- The proportions of intercolumniations and of columns -- Foundations and substructures of temples -- Proportions of the base, capitals, and entablature in the Ionic order -- Book 4. Origins of the three orders, and the proportions of the Corinthian capital -- The ornaments of the orders -- Proportions of Doric temples -- The cella and pronaos -- How the temple should face -- Doorways of temples -- Tuscan temples -- Circular temples and other varieties -- Altars -- Book 5. The forum and basilica -- The treasury, prison, and senate house -- The theatre: its site, foundations, and acoustics -- Harmonics -- Sounding vessels in the theatre -- Plan of the theatre -- Greek theatres -- Acoustics of the site of a theatre -- Colonnades and walks -- Baths -- The Palaestra -- Harbours, breakwaters, and shipyards --