Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (-30)
Harvard University Press (M. H. Morgan translation, 1914).
URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20239
Abstract. The oldest surviving Western treatise on architecture, written around 30 BCE. Articulates the triad of firmitas (durability), utilitas (utility), and venustas (beauty) as the three qualities every well-designed structure must possess, and grounds architectural proportion in human anatomy.
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