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Vitruvius has 51 books on goodreads with 2541 ratings. For hundreds of years, the specific instructions he gave in his ten books on architecture were followed faithfully, and major buildings in all parts of the world. Ten books on architecturebook vi wikisource, the free. Claude perrault 78 from ordonnance for the five kinds of columns after the method of the. This book is available for free download in a number of formats including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. Harvard university press, 1914 architecture 331 pages. Utilitas, firmitas, venustas no more famous slogan has been invented for the essential components of architectural values than vitruviuss famous three of utilitas function. In the preface of book i, vitruvius dedicates his writings so as to give personal knowledge of the quality of buildings to the emperor.

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