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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, born around 80 BC, served in the Roman army under Caesar and specialized in the design and construction of artillery machines. His duties took him to what are now Spain and France and as far away as North Africa. Vitruvius later became an architect and worked on a temple, no longer in existence, in the town of Fano in
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Firmness, commodity, and delight (Latin: firmitas, utilitas et venustas ) are the three aspects of good architecture declared by the Roman architect Vitruvius in his book "De architectura" ("On architecture", 1st century BC) and also known as Vitruvian virtues , Vitruvian Triad .
Firmness, commodity, and delight
a good plan is always a good plan
plan of Crypta Balbi, Rome
Source: Sebastiano Serlio. Il Terzo libro di Sebastiano Serlio Bolognese (Di Architettura, book III) (Venice, 1544), p. 57, pl. LVII NOTES: Andrea Palladio made a drawn copy of this plate in the 1550s
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Vitruvius’s fundamental tenet was that “the power of nature has acted as architect” in biology: universal laws of nature had brought about human anatomy, and so, within our body’s design, we had a map of the macrocosm. The body was literally a minor mundus, a “mini world,” and, thereby, a reflection of the universe. The implication was that the
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JNL Durand: Principal kind of buildings 🏢🏬🏨 (1817) #tableaux #plates #architecture #buildingtypology #dry #classicism #austerity #civilengineering #moralinstruction
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Sir John Soane's Museum
YEAR: 1792 - 1837
LOCATION: London, United Kingdom
FUNCTION: museum
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The founding father
Sir John Soane can be briefly described by the following series of terms: English, architect, professor at the Royal... See more
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