CONTENTS
Vitruvius Pollio
BOOK I
Preface
3
The Education of the Architect
5
The Fundamental Principles of Architecture
13
The Departments of Architecture
16
The Site of a City
17
The City Walls
21
The Directions of the Streets; with Remarks on the Winds
24
The Sites for Public Buildings
31
BOOK II
Introduction
35
The Origin of the Dwelling House
38
On the Primordial Substance according to the Physicists
42
Brick
42
Sand
44
Lime
45
Pozzolana
46
Stone
49
Methods of building Walls
51
Timber
58
Highland and Lowland Fir
64
BOOK III
Introduction
69
On Symmetry: in Temples and in the Human Body
72
Classification of Temples
75
The Proportions of Intercolumniations and of Columns
78
The Foundations and Substructures of Temples
86
Proportions of the Base, Capitals, and Entablature in the Ionic Order
90
BOOK IV
Introduction
101
The Origins of the Three Orders, and the Proportions of the Corinthian Capital
102
The Ornaments of the Orders
107
Proportions of Doric Temples
109
The Cella and Pronaos
114
How the Temple should face
116
The Doorways of Temples
117
Tuscan Temples
120
Circular Temples and Other Varieties
122
Altars
125
BOOK V
Introduction
129
The Forum and Basilica
131
The Treasury, Prison, and Senate House
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