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On Architecture by Vitruvius
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions... -
The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio: In Ten Books by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio 9781108070522
Booksplease Price: £49.54Active in the first century BCE, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote his influential architectural treatise in ten books. It remained the standard manual for architects into the medieval period. The topics... -
On Architecture: v. 2: Bks.VI-X by Vitruvius
Booksplease Price: £25.31The Renaissance man avant la lettre.Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He... -
The Stock Exchange (Edition1) by Vitruvius Pollio 9789362993373
RRP: £13.57Booksplease Price: £10.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362993373Author Vitruvius PollioPage Count 74Imprint -
On Architecture: Bks. I-X by Vitruvius 9780486206455
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486206455Author Vitruvius VitruviusFormat PaperbackPage Count 331Impr -
On Architecture: v. 1: Bks.I-V by Vitruvius
Booksplease Price: £25.31The Renaissance man avant la lettre.Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was... -
Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio 9781420965230
Booksplease Price: £9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420965230Author Vitruvius PollioFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint
Vitruvius and Later Roman Building Manuals by Hugh Plommer 9780521100380
Booksplease Price: £32.12An edition and translation of Faventinus' Compendium of Vitruvius' De architectura. There is an introductory account of the relationship between Vitruvius and the world of Faventinus and Palladius,...
Author and Audience in Vitruvius' De architectura by Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols
Booksplease Price: £32.12Vitruvius' De architectura is the only extant classical text on architecture, and its impact on Renaissance masters including Leonardo da Vinci is well-known. But what was the text's purpose in its...
All the King’s Horses: Vitruvius in an Age of Princes by Indra Kagis Mcewen
Booksplease Price: £38.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047616Author Indra Kagis McewenFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint
Author and Audience in Vitruvius' De architectura by Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols 9781107003125
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £92.64Vitruvius' De architectura is the only extant classical text on architecture, and its impact on Renaissance masters including Leonardo da Vinci is well-known. But what was the text's purpose in its...
Vitruvius Britannicus: The Classic of Eighteenth-Century British Architecture by Colen Campbell
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £20.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486447995Author Colen CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint
The Architecture Reader: Essential Writings from Vitruvius to the Present by A. Krista Sykes 9780807615805
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807615805Author A. Krista SykesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint![Ink, or "Vis for Vermillion as Described by Vitruvius" - An A to Z of Ink in Architecture by Michelle Fornabai 9781883584900](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9597806/10631644/9781883584900__43566.1778823697.jpg?c=1 "Ink, or "Vis for Vermillion as Described by Vitruvius" - An A to Z of Ink in Architecture by Michelle Fornabai 9781883584900")
Ink, or "Vis for Vermillion as Described by Vitruvius" - An A to Z of Ink in Architecture by Michelle Fornabai 9781883584900
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Ink proposes a creative and critical inquiry into ink's instrumentality in architecture. This collect-ion of short essays comprises a latent history of architecture in ink, placing ink in our world...
Sir John Vanbrugh and the Vitruvian Landscape by Caroline Dalton
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was one of the most important figures in English garden history although he is rarely recognised as such. An eclectic early career as a merchant, a soldier and a...
Vitruvian Man: Rome under Construction by John Oksanish 9780190696986
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £73.35Professionalism is political. This book offers a new assessment of the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, On Architecture, dedicated to Augustus in the 20s BCE. Once reviled by scholars,...
Architectural Theory, Volume 1: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 Harry Francis Mallgrave (Illinois Institute of Technology) 9781405102582
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £37.06Architectural Theory: Vitruvius to 1870 is a landmark anthology that surveys the development of the field of architecture from its earliest days to the year 1870. The first truly comprehensive...
Greek and Roman Methods of Painting: Some Comments on the Statements Made by Pliny and Vitruvius about Wall and Panel Painting by A. P. Laurie 9781107416307
Booksplease Price: £27.60Originally published in 1910, this book analyses Greek and Roman painting techniques, using evidence from ancient writings and archaeological remains, including those from Pompeii. Laurie examines...
The Elements of Civil Architecture, According to Vitruvius and Other Ancients, and the Most Approved Practice of Modern Authors Especially Palladio by Henry Aldrich 9780371165751
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371165751Author Henry AldrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint
Translation of Vitruvius and Copies of Late Antique Drawings in Buonaccorso Ghiberti's Zibalone: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 69, Part 1) by Gustina Scaglia 9781422374931
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £68.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Cervantes' Architectures: The Dangers Outside by Frederick A. de Armas 9781487542399
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £44.11Cervantes' Architectures is the first book dedicated to architecture in Cervantes' prose fiction. At a time when a pandemic is sweeping the world, this book reflects on the danger outside by...
On Digital Architecture in Ten Books: Vol. 2: Books IV–VI. by Ludger Hovestadt 9783035625998
RRP: £41.50Booksplease Price: £35.20Treatise on digital architecture Hovestadt's treatise strictly follows the model of the famous treatises by Vitruvius (De architectura) and Alberti (De re aedificatoria), based on the supposition...
Leonardo da Vinci. The Graphic Work by Frank Zollner
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.61One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world's most famous paintings, this scientist, artist,...
On Digital Architecture in Ten Books: Vol. 1: Books I–III. by Ludger Hovestadt 9783035625981
RRP: £41.50Booksplease Price: £35.20Treatise on digital architecture Hovestadt's treatise strictly follows the model of the famous treatises by Vitruvius (De architectura) and Alberti (De re aedificatoria), based on the supposition...
Arretium (Arezzo) Ingrid Edlund-Berry 9781477330180
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90A comprehensive examination of the history and excavation of the Etruscan city of Arretium. Beneath the Italian city of Arezzo lie the remains of Etruscan Arretium. This volume, the first...
Leonardo. The Complete Paintings and Drawings by Frank Zollner 9783836576253
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £39.35Unmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) epitomizes the humanistic ideal of the Renaissance man: a peerless master of painting, sculpture,...
The Golden Number: Pythagorean Rites and Rhythms in the Development of Western Civilization by Matila C. Ghyka 9781594771002
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.48The Golden Number, or Phi ( ), is a geometric ratio found throughout nature, often underlying the dimensions of objects considered especially beautiful. Simplified as 1.618 and symbolized by the...
Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources by Stephen G. Miller 9780520274334
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon,...
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy by Keith Waldrop 9780520258785
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.81This compelling selection of recent work by internationally celebrated poet Keith Waldrop presents three related poem sequences - "Shipwreck in Haven," "Falling in Love through a Description," and...
Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy by Basil Dufallo 9780472133406
Booksplease Price: £75.25The story of Roman Hellenism-defined as the imitation or adoption of something Greek by those subject to or operating under Roman power-begins not with Roman incursions into the Greek mainland, but...
Governor's Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America, 1607-1783: An Historical, Architectural and Archaeological Survey Hoke P. Kimball 9780786470518
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £31.08This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and...
Ichnographia Rustica: Stephen Switzer and the designed landscape William Alvis Brogden 9781138392793
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93One of the most significant occurrences in the history of design was the creation of the English Landscape Garden. Accounts of its genesis...the surprising structural change from the formal to a...
European Directory of Sustainable and Energy Efficient Building 1999: Components, Services, Materials by John Goulding
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £128.68This directory has become a valued source of information for energy-efficient building designers and specifiers throughout Europe and the details and scope of product, service and supplier listings...
The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance: Architectural Invention, Ornament and Literary Culture by Alina A. Payne 9780521178235
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £45.71Vitruvius's Ten Books of Architecture, the only architectural treatise to have survived from antiquity, was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. Offering theoretical...
Culture, Urbanism and Planning Manuel Guardia 9781138253575
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59The relationship between culture and urbanism has been the focus of much discussion and debate in recent years. While globalisation tends towards a homogeneity, successful 'global cities' have a...
The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance: Architectural Invention, Ornament and Literary Culture by Alina A. Payne 9780521622660
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09Vitruvius's Ten Books of Architecture, the only architectural treatise to have survived from antiquity, was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. Offering theoretical...
A Beginner's Guide to Urban Design and Development: The ABC of Quality, Sustainable Design by Laura B. Alvarez 9781032154152
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £28.57This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to those who have worked for many years in industry,...
The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture John Shannon Hendrix (University of Lincoln, UK and Roger Williams University and Rhode Island School of Design, USA) 9780415639149
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between...
Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis: Modern Civic Art and International Exchanges by Charles Bohl
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.98These essays, from leading names in the field, weave together the parallels and differences between the past and present of civic art. Offering prospects for the first decades of the twenty-first...
The Rise of the Image: Essays on the History of the Illustrated Art Book by Rodney Palmer
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84The Rise of the Image reveals how illustrations have come to play a primary part in books on art and architecture. Italian Renaissance art is the main focus for this anthology of essays which analyse...