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Vitruvius, man?

2019
AbstractChapter 1 surveys what little we can say with reasonable certainty about Vitruvius’s life and the circumstances surrounding De architectura’s publication. Our knowledge of the historical Vitruvius is occluded by a lack of contemporary external testimony, by his declared attitudes toward representation, and by a particularly complex reception ...
John Oksanish
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Vitruvius in Cyberspace

International Journal of Art, Culture, Design, and Technology, 2013
Nowadays, new forms of virtual architecture are appearing as virtual worlds based on the Metaverse concept are becoming increasingly more popular, holding all kind of virtual versions of human activities. This paper aims to make a reflection on the features of these new architectures compared with their equivalents in the real world by means of an ...
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DEPRECIATION IN VITRUVIUS

The Classical Quarterly, 2013
Vitruvius has something interesting to say at De architectura 2.8.8: Non enim quae sunt e molli caemento subtili facie venustatis, non eae possunt esse in vetustate non ruinosae. itaque cum arbitrio communium parietum sumuntur, non aestimant eos quanti facti fuerint, sed cum ex tabulis inveniunt eorum locationes, pretia praeteritorum annorum singulorum
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Vitruvius

2018
Vitruvius is the author of De architectura (c. 20s bce), the only text devoted to architecture that survives from classical antiquity. On the basis of internal evidence, scholars date Vitruvius’s De architectura to c. 27–22 bce. Across ten books of Latin prose dedicated to the emperor Augustus, Vitruvius lays out an ambitious and idiosyncratic vision ...
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2010
There is no generally accepted theory of acoustics of concert halls based on the physics of sound as waves. Lord Rayleigh, founder of the science, remarked but little about sound in rooms. Wallace Clement Sabine made an analogy of sound in rooms to the kinetic theory of gases; although this is theoretically untenable, Sabine designed the superb concert
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