Urban Planning in the First Unfortified Spanish Colonial Town: The Orientation of the Historic Churches of San Cristóbal de La Laguna [PDF]
The city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in the Canary Island of Tenerife (Spain) is of exceptional value as the first unfortified colonial city to follow regular plan - a grid, outlined by straight streets that form squares - in the overseas European ...
Belmonte, Juan Antonio +1 more
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Vitruvius Neerlandice. Een nieuwe vertaling van het Romeinse 'handboek bouwkunde'
The significance of Vitruvius's manual for the later periods of art history is unmistakable. The Latin text - often elaborate and quite lapidary in style - poses translation problems for even the most expert classicist or archaeologist.
J.A.K.E. de Waele
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WHY HAVE A FRONTISPIECE? EXAMPLES FROM THE MICHALOWICZ COLLECTION AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
When Henry Savile, who was noted for his mathematical breadth and knowledge of ancient texts, initiated a series of lectures at Oxford on the Almagest of Ptolemy on October 10, 1570, he began with these words of the Roman architect ...
Florence D. Fasanelli +1 more
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Les chapiteaux gallo-romains toscans des collections lapidaires d’Alésia (Côte-d’Or)
The column capitals of the Doric and Tuscan orders share a simple structure consisting of simple horizontal moldings, sometimes embellished with discrete decorations (egg-and-dart, bead-and-barrel, leaf-and-dart, and low-relief leaf moldings).
Albéric Olivier
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Technical Skills for Students of Architecture [PDF]
Architects employ science in order to understand the structural and environmental performance of their products, and apply technology in order to assemble them.
McLean, W. +3 more
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Giovanna Spadafora, Fondamenti e applicazioni di geometria descrittiva, Franco Angeli, Milano 2019
The scheme of the architectural representation process, and therefore its theoretical basis, is all enclosed, even today, in the famous passage written by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, the Roman architect of the Augustan era, which takes up and fixes ...
Marco Gaiani
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KONSEPTUALISASI UTILITAS BERDASARKAN TRILOGI VITRUVIUS DI DALAM ARSITEKTUR
Abstrak_ Studi ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui lebih dalam konsep utilitas (fungsi) berdasarkan trilogy Vitruvius di dalam arsitektur. Studi ini menggunakan kajian pustaka dengan fokus studi yaitu pada pandangan dan perspektif ahli, tokoh arsitek, serta ...
Ulfaizah Sahril Nurfadhillah +2 more
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The sequencing of circles congruent with a (divided) column diameter – a visualization of the Vitruvian concept of a fixed module – is expanded by the inclusion, in the same scale, of geometric figures intrinsic to the ad triangulum method.
Duško Čikara
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About triangular drawing plan from vitruvius' manuscript by Lázaro de Velasco
Vitruvius trio debate about the latin terms firmitas, utilitas, venustas from Ten Books on Architecture has had its ups and downs. The influence of the tripartite schematization seems to be graphically present in a xvith century drawing by Lázaro de ...
Juan Saumell Lladó +2 more
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The Vitruvius' Tale of Archimedes and the Golden Crown [PDF]
The paper discusses the tale that we can find in "The Architecture" by Vitruvius, on a method used by Archimedes to determine the percentage of gold and silver in a crown.
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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