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Domestic Hybrids: Vitruvius’ Xenia, the Surrealist’s Minotaure, and Shrigley’s Octopus
The domestic spaces of the built environment are traditionally associated with residential architecture. But the domestic spaces can also extend out, metaphorically, into familiar public spaces in which one may feel at home, and also extend inwards into ...
Simon Weir
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Roman architect Vitruvius’ “De architectura libri decem” mirrors architectural-engineering history and theories of the Classical Ages of the Mediterranean Basin that reached the present day and it has taken its place in the literature as the most ...
Görkem KÖKDEMİR
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Le trasformazioni dei tribunali di età augustea fra salubrità e politica
This paper focuses on the spaces of justice in the Roman world by considering their evolution during the Augustus’ Principate. The aim is to enhance a specific indicator attested in ancient literary sources to show up courts’ transformations, i.e ...
Luciano Traversa
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Terapan Trilogi Vitruvius Dalam Arsitektur Nusantara
Kekayaan budaya dan keberagaman kondisi alam menyebabkan muncul keberagaman arsitektur di Nusantara. Arsitektur Nusantara yang beranekaragam, tetap dipandang oleh sebagian golongan sebagai sebuah kekunoan, dan ketidaklayakan untuk dijadikan sebagai ...
Josephine Roosandriantini
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Usability as Speculum Mundi: A Core Concept in Socio-technical Systems Development
Usability covers the breadth and depth of the rich interaction of users and technology in the socio-technical context. Though the concept of usability is well established, the integration of usability thinking in system development is challenging, partly
Mikko Rajanen, Dorina Rajanen
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In Vitruvius' legacy, music is noted as being important for enhancing the architectural acoustics of ancient theaters. In particular, he described in detail the sounding vessels, or ηχεια (“echea”), the effectiveness of which still has not been proven ...
Isakov Yuriy I.
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Bartolomeo Passerotti (1529-1592) and Books
The contribution consists of two parts. Starting from the provenance evidence, the first part studies the history of two volumes, which belonged to the painter Bartolomeo Passerotti, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth century; the second part examines ...
Angela Ghirardi, Maria Pia Torricelli
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The Concepts of Space in the Spanish Translations of Vitruvius (1564, 1582, 1761 and 1787). Their Differences from Gottfried Semper’s Idea of Space as Developed in Der Stil (1860, 1863) [PDF]
The meanings of the term ‘space’ in four translations into Spanish of De architectura by Vitruvius are analysed here in order to clarify a piece of the ‘prehistory’ of the concept of space in Architectural Theory before Gottfried Semper.
Daniel Dávila Romano
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Computational Analytical Methods for Buildings and Cities: Space Syntax and Shape Grammar
During the first century BC, the famous Roman architect, Vitruvius, defined architecture as encompassing three essential properties: firmitas (firmness), utilitas (utility), and venustas (attractiveness or beauty) [...]
Michael J. Ostwald, Ju Hyun Lee
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De Vitruvius-uitgave van Johannes De Laet (1649)
Johannes De Laet was a Leiden merchant and one of the directors of the Dutch West India Company. He also moved in the learned circles of Leiden University and was a good friend and assistant of professor Claude Saumaise.
Koen A. Ottenheym
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