Download or read book Vitruvius and Later Roman Building Manuals written by Marcus Cetius Faventinus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1973-06-21 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text has a translation on facing pages and is followed by a commentary on the main points of interest in it.
Download or read book Vitruvius Ten Books on Architecture written by Vitruvius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Life and work Of Marcus Vitruvius The great Architect of antiquity written by Diego Kurilo and published by Sophia Lux. This book was released on with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vitruvius survives 1 to this day not only as the author of a Magno treatise on architecture, one of the few scientific and historical documents referring to the art of construction that has survived the shipwreck of classical treatises, but also as an outstanding representative of the art of build during the Roman Empire in the time of Augustus. We could rightly add that his legacy transcends the boundaries of time and enshrines him as the teacher of generations, a tradition that has persisted through the centuries. His work not only provides a valuable compendium of architectural knowledge and design principles, but also serves as a lasting testament to the aesthetic and functional ideals that have influenced architecture throughout history. The applicability of his 1 Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Latin Marcus Vitruvius Pollio; c. 80 BC-70 BC-15 BC) was a Roman architect, writer, engineer, and treatise writer of the 1st century BC. c. Página 1 de 791 Life and work of Marcus Vitruvius principles throughout the ages underscores the universality and temporality of his teachings. “The work itself also provides the only clues to its dating: based on information about individual Roman buildings, the beginning of the composition can be dated to 33 BC. BC. Thus, Vitruvius stands not only as an exponent of classical antiquity, but also as an enduring guide in the art of construction, whose teachings continue to inspire architects and builders throughout the ages. His legacy encompasses not only architectural technique, but also the very essence of the art of building, transcending temporal barriers and enriching our understanding of creativity and engineering in construction. The era of Vitruvius and the transition from the Roman Republic to the Empire. The birth name of the man who would later be known as Augustus was Gaius Octavius (Gaius Octavius). According to Suetonius, he initially bore the nickname Turinus, although there is no additional documentation of this. Cassius Dion mentions the name Caipias as another nickname for Augustus, although it has been little noticed. After being adopted Página 2 de 791 Life and work of Marcus Vitruvius testamentarily by Caesar in 44 BC, he officially adopted the name C. Iulius Caesar, or in its full form with filiation, Gaius Iulius C. f. Caesar, 44 BC The young Octavian became Julius Caesar's heir after his assassination in 44 BC. C. A year later, in 43 BC. c. A year later, in 43 BC, Octavian, along with Mark Antony and Lepidus, established a military dictatorship known as the Second Triumvirate. In his role as triumvir, Octavian exercised control over Rome and most of its provinces, adopting an autocratic approach. He secured consular power after the deaths of the consuls Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Vibius Pansa, in addition to being re-elected each year. Over time, the triumvirate began to fall apart due to the individual ambitions of its members: Lepidus was forced into exile, and Mark Antony ended up committing suicide after his defeat at the naval battle of Actium by Octavian's fleet, commanded by Agrippa, in 31 BC Vitruvius lived in a time characterized by constant political turmoil. After long decades of internal conflict, Rome was undergoing the transformation from a republic to what we now recognize as the Roman Empire. In this period of Página 3 de 791 Life and work of Marcus Vitruvius change, new social strata emerged, accessing positions of power to which they previously did not have access. With the dissolution of the Second Triumvirate, Octavian undertook the restoration of republican principles, reestablishing governmental power in the Senate. However, in practice, he retained significant autocratic power. It took several years to determine the precise structure by which a republican entity could be led by a single ruler, and the end result was known as the Principality. Unlike the Roman dictatorship of the Republic, which figures such as Caesar and Sulla had held in the past, the imperial title was not considered an office of the same nature. Augustus formally rejected this title after Roman society "begged him to assume the dictatorship." References: Formally Imperator Caesar, Divi filius, Augustus, 'Emperor Caesar Augustus, son of the Divine (Julius Caesar)' Classic sources: Augustus (first century). Divi Augusti's dreams. The Works of Divi Augusti (1994) trans. J. M. Courteous Copete. ISBN 84-7882-148-1 Nicholas of Damascus (i century). The Life of Augustus. Tacitus (117) Annals. "Annals" Akal Classic 80: Latin Classics, Akal Editions. ISBN 9788446025368 Suetonius (iith century). From life Caesarum. Divine Augustus. Dion Cassius (iii century). Roman History, Books 45‐56
Download or read book Studies in the History of Services and Construction written by James Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building services are often overlooked in the history of architecture and engineering. This volume presents 41 papers presented at the Fifth Annual Conference of the Construction History Society held at Queens' College Cambridge from 6-8 April 2018 which cover a wide variety of topics on aspects of construction history and building services.
Download or read book Empire of the Romans written by John Matthews and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a broad range of texts spanning six centuries of imperial Roman history—Volume II of Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian Empire of the Romans: From Julius Caesar to Justinian: Six Hundred Years of Peace and War, Volume II: Select Anthology is a compendium of texts that trace the main historical changes of the empire over six hundred years, from the death of Julius Caesar to the late Middle Ages. The second volume of Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian, this anthology balances literary texts with other documentary, legal, and epigraphic sources. Acclaimed author John Matthews presents texts that reflect individual, first-person experiences rather than those from historians outside of the time periods of which they write. Each selection includes an introduction, annotations on points of interest, author commentary, and suggestions for further reading. Excerpts are organized thematically to help readers understand their meaning without requiring an extensive knowledge of context. Six sections—running in parallel to the structure and content to Volume I—explore the topics such as the building of the empire, Pax Romana, the new empire of Diocletian and Constantine, and barbarian invasions and the fall of the Western Empire. Selected texts span a wide array of subjects ranging from political discourse and Roman law, to firsthand accounts of battle and military service, to the civic life and entertainment of ordinary citizens. This volume: Covers a vast chronological and topical range Includes introductory essays to each selected text to explain key points, present problems of interpretation, and guides readers to further literature Balances the different categories and languages of original texts Enables easy cross-reference to Volume I Minimizes the use of technical language in favor of plain-English forms Whether used as a freestanding work or as a complement to Volume I, the Select Anthology is an ideal resource for students in Roman history survey courses as well as interested general readers seeking a wide-ranging collection of readings on the subject.
Download or read book The Architecture of the Roman Empire written by William Lloyd MacDonald and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Roman architecture as a party of overall urban design and looks at arches, public buildings, tombs, columns, stairs, plazas, and streets
Download or read book Building the Classical World written by Dorian Borbonus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This multiauthor volume brings together thirteen chapters examining various aspects of structure and construction in the monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. Taken together they represent the international state of Bauforschung, the scientific, analytical, and often archaeological study of historic buildings. The chapters cover a variety of topics, such as construction processes, design principles, building traditions, and historical contexts. This range showcases the different technical and historical methodologies that are brought to bear on the Classical architecture of the ancient Mediterranean. At the same time, there is considerable overlap, which demonstrates that different approaches are bound together by the common aim to reconstruct historic built environments, the empirical nature of the undertaking, and the combination of visual and verbal argumentation. Bauforschung, Architectural history, Greece, Rome, Classical architecture, Historic buildings"--
Download or read book Brill s Companion to the Reception of Vitruvius written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a master of his discipline, the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius has been read widely for centuries. This collection of essays by an international team of experts investigates his influence and reception in ideas, artistic forms, and building practices from antiquity to modern day. The stories of influence told in these pages suggest that it is the unbridgeable gulf between the Vitruvian text and surviving monuments that makes reading the Ten Books so endlessly compelling. The contributors to this volume offer their own, original readings, which are organized into the five sections: transmission; translation; reception; practice; and Vitruvian topics.
Download or read book Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900 Reconstructing their Architecture and Political Philosophy written by Tessa Morrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but also, their architecture and how that architecture informs the political philosophy or social agenda that the author intended. Each of the ten authors expressed their theory through concepts of community and utopian architecture, but each featured an architectural solution at the centre of their social and political philosophy, as none of the cities were ever built, they have remained as utopian literature. Some of the works examined are very well-known, such as Tommaso Campanella’s Civitas Solis, while others such as Joseph Michael Gandy’s Designs for Cottages, are relatively obscure. However, even with the best known works, this volume offers new insights by focusing on the architecture of the cities and how that architecture represents the author’s political philosophy. It reconstructs the cities through a 3-D computer program, ArchiCAD, using Artlantis to render. Plans, sections, elevations and perspectives are presented for each of the cities. The ten cities are: Filarete - Sforzina; Albrecht Dürer - Fortified Utopia; Tommaso Campanella - The City of the Sun; Johann Valentin Andreae - Christianopolis; Joseph Michael Gandy - An Agricultural Village; Robert Owen - Villages of Unity and Cooperation; James Silk Buckingham - Victoria; Robert Pemberton - Queen Victoria Town; King Camp Gillette - Metropolis; and Bradford Peck - The World a Department Store. Each chapter considers the work in conjunction with contemporary thought, the political philosophy and the reconstruction of the city. Although these ten cities represent over 500 years of utopian and political thought, they are an interlinked thread that had been drawn from literature of the past and informed by contemporary thought and society. The book is structured in two parts:
Download or read book Principles of Roman Architecture written by Mark Wilson Jones and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architects of ancient Rome developed a vibrant and enduring tradition, inspiring those who followed in their profession even to this day. This book explores how Roman architects went about the creative process.
Download or read book History of Architectural Theory written by Hanno-Walter Kruft and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.
Download or read book Greek and Roman Technology written by Andrew N. Sherwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition of Greek and Roman Technology, the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient texts to provide a history and analysis of the origins and development of technology in the classical world. Sherwood and Nikolic, with Humphrey and Oleson, provide a comprehensive and accessible collection of rich and varied sources to illustrate and elucidate the beginnings of technology. Among the topics covered are energy, basic mechanical devices, hydraulic engineering, household industry, medicine and health, transport and trade, and military technology. This fully revised Sourcebook collects more than 1,300 passages from over 200 ancient sources and a diverse range of literary genres, such as the encyclopaedic Natural History of Pliny the Elder, the poetry of Homer and Hesiod, the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and Lucretius, the agricultural treatises of Varro, Columella, and Cato, the military texts of Philo of Byzantium and Aeneas Tacticus, as well as the medical texts of Galen, Celsus, and the Hippocratic Corpus. Almost 100 line drawings, indexes of authors and subjects, introductions outlining the general significance of the evidence, notes to explain the specific details, and current bibliographies are included. This new and revised edition of Greek and Roman Technology will remain an important and vital resource for students of technology in the ancient world, as well as those studying the impact of technological change on classical society.
Download or read book Eratosthenes Geography written by Eratosthenes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this work, which for the first time described the geography of the entire inhabited world as it was then known, Eratosthenes of Kyrene (ca. 285-205 BC) invented the discipline of geography as we understand it. A polymath who served as librarian at Alexandria and tutor to the future King Ptolemy IV, Eratosthenes created the terminology of geography, probably including the word geographia itself. Building on his previous work, in which he determined the size and shape of the earth, Eratosthenes in the Geographika created a grid of parallels and meridians that linked together every place in the world: for the first time one could figure out the relationship and distance between remote localities, such as northwest Africa and the Caspian Sea. The Geographika also identified some four hundred places, more than ever before, from Thoule (probably Iceland) to Taprobane (Sri Lanka), and from well down the coast of Africa to Central Asia. This is the first collation of the more than 150 fragments of the Geographika in more than a century. Each fragment is accompanied by an English translation, a summary, and commentary. Duane W. Roller provides a rich background, including a history of the text and its reception, a biography of Eratosthenes, and a comprehensive account of ancient Greek geographical thought and of Eratosthenes' pioneering contribution to it. This edition also includes maps that show all of the known places named in the Geographika, appendixes, a bibliography, and indexes.
Download or read book Designing High Density Cities written by Edward Ng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compact living is sustainable living. High-density cities can support closer amenities, encourage reduced trip lengths and the use of public transport and therefore reduce transport energy costs and carbon emissions. High-density planning also helps to control the spread of urban suburbs into open lands, improves efficiency in urban infrastructure and services, and results in environmental improvements that support higher quality of life in cities. Encouraging, even requiring, higher density urban development is a major policy and a central principle of growth management programmes used by planners around the world. However, such density creates design challenges and problems. A collection of experts in each of the related architectural and planning areas examines these environmental and social issues, and argues that high-density cities are a sustainable solution. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in sustainable urban development.
Download or read book The City in Roman Palestine written by Daniel Sperber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the city and urban life in Roman Palestine during the Talmudic period, 100-400 B.C. Rather than focus on a specific city, Daniel Sperber synthesizes what is known about city life in Talmudic Palestine to create a paradigmatic hypothetical Palestinian city. Drawing on numerous literary records for his information, he describes the structure and use of many physical aspects of the city, such as its markets, pubs, streets, bathhouses, roads, walls, toilets, and water supply. Rounding out the study is a chapter describing the archeological evidence, written by Sperber's colleague, Professor Joshua Schwartz. With the recent upsurge of interest in urbanization in the Greco-Roman world, The City in Roman Palestine will attract not only scholars of Judaic literature and history, but also classicists and ancient historians.
Download or read book The Army of the Roman Republic written by Mike Dobson and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main source of archaeological evidence for Late Roman Republican camps is a complex of installations around the Iberian city of Numantia in Spain, excavated by Adolf Schulten in the early 1900s. This book reassesses Schulten and concludes that much of his interpretation is questionable. Radically different alternative reconstructions making use of recent fieldwork are presented for several of the sites. A discussion of dating evidence leads to alternative dates being offered for some of the camps. To aid interpreting the sites, army organisation and art of encampment for the period of the Numantine Wars is discussed. This study gives added importance to the sites at Numantia, for they not only form the main source of archaeological evidence for Late Republican camps, but provide evidence for the form of camp for both the late manipular army and the early cohort one.
Download or read book Ornament written by T. L. J. Howard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a wide-ranging and richly illustrated book, the authors begin by tracing the ways ornament has been used over the last five centuries, the rules of decorum and etiquette associated with it, and the social, moral and spiritual values it has represented. They examine how architecture set the agenda for ornament in the Renaissance, and how printed images carried a common vocabulary of ornament throughout the Western world. They survey the personal side of ornament, both in dress and in the domestic interior - a private expression of the self and a public statement of social and cultural status. They look at ornament in the public domain - from the lavish decoration and symbolism of a town pageant to the logos of today's corporate industry - and show how the ever-evolving role of ornament is to invent and embody the collective spirit of communities at work and at leisure. They conclude by discussing how the Western tradition of ornament has responded to and absorbed 'exotic' African and Asian motifs: Moresque motifs of the Near East and such familiar designs as the 'Paisley' and Willow" patterns.
