Vitruvius on Architecture

Approximately 2,025 years ago, an aged Roman architect named Vitruvius wrote down on ten scrolls everything he knew about architecture. This work, known today as Ten Books on Architecture, is the most comprehensive architectural book written in antiquity and a seminal volume in Western culture. Vitruvius on Architecture presents a new translation of the five books most relevant to contemporary architecture and new drawings and watercolors that illustrate Vitruvius's methods of proportion and composition. Also included are numerous photographs of historic architecture from Greece, Italy, Turkey, and throughout the Mediterranean region.