Architectura

While at the "Old College" he gave his lectures in what is now the orphans 'dining-room, and at the new college in a room which still bears in the inscription "Architectura".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The Augustan architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio is regarded today more as a figurehead father of architecture than someone whose views on houses belong in the pages of Dwell or Wallpaper, but there is something terribly obvious about his three general precepts in De Architectura that have held true over two thousand years: that an architect-designed building must have integrity of structure, a responsibility to function, and the added delight of beauty.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

The Augustan architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio is regarded today more as a figurehead father of architecture than someone whose views on houses belong in the pages of Dwell or Wallpaper, but there is something terribly obvious about his three general precepts in De Architectura that have held true over two thousand years: that an architect-designed building must have integrity of structure, a responsibility to function, and the added delight of beauty.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

The Augustan architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio is regarded today more as a figurehead father of architecture than someone whose views on houses belong in the pages of Dwell or Wallpaper, but there is something terribly obvious about his three general precepts in De Architectura that have held true over two thousand years: that an architect-designed building must have integrity of structure, a responsibility to function, and the added delight of beauty.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

They based their definitions on the writings of Roman architect Vitruvius and on first-hand observations of the buildings the latter described in his foundational first-century BC treatise, De Architectura Ten Books of Architecture.

Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders 2011

The Augustan architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio is regarded today more as a figurehead father of architecture than someone whose views on houses belong in the pages of Dwell or Wallpaper, but there is something terribly obvious about his three general precepts in De Architectura that have held true over two thousand years: that an architect-designed building must have integrity of structure, a responsibility to function, and the added delight of beauty.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Such imagery is more prevalent at Gubbio, where the following items are suspended from a hook: a C-shaped horn of Cornu (fig. 4.19), an O-shaped timbre, a tau-shaped tuning key (fig. 4.20), the A-shaped set square/level of Architectura, and the O-shaped round mirror.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Jahrhunderts, Architectura 13 (1983): 152 – 68. back

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

            “Architectura, Madeline speaking, can I help you?”

The Death of Tarzan Thomas J. Ventimiglia 2010

The Langleys 'presentation of Gothic as a separate order had been anticipated by Hans Vredeman de Vries' Architectura

CONCEPT OF GOTHIC WAYNE DYNES 1968