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Vitruvius : Writing the Body of Architecture by Indra Kagis McEwen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Vitruvius : Writing the Body of Architecture about?
Vitruvius's De architectura is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, and until the eighteenth century it was the text to which all other architectural treatises referred. While European classicists have focused on the factual truth of the text itself, English-speaking architects and architectural theorists have viewed it as a timeless source of valuable metaphors. Departing from both perspectives, Indra Kagis McEwen examines the work's meaning and significance in its own time.Vitruvius dedicated De architectura to his patron Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, whose rise to power inspired its composition near the end of the first century B.C. McEwen argues that the imperial project of world dominion shaped Vitruvius's purpose in writing what he calls "the whole body of architecture." Specifically, Vitruvius's aim was to present his discipline as the means for making the emperor's body congruent with the imagined body of the world he would ru
Who reads Vitruvius : Writing the Body of Architecture?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Indra Kagis McEwen
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262633062
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Architecture, Art
