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Opus Signinum, Terrazzo, Mortier et Béton de Sol : Un Etat de la Question

open access: yesJournal of Mosaic Research, 2016
After a brief presentation of the various materials used in these pavements and the description of their decorative repertoires, we discuss the question of vocabulary.
Véronique VASSAL
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The time it takes to make: design and use in architecture and archaeology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Book synopsis: Design and Anthropology challenges conventional thinking regarding the nature of design and creativity, in a way that acknowledges the improvisatory skills and perceptual acuity of people.
McFadyen, Lesley
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Evidence for an Early Formation of Serenitatis Basin at 4.25 Ga Shifts Lunar Chronology

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, Volume 52, Issue 18, 28 September 2025.
Abstract Troctolite sample 76535, collected in Serenitatis basin during Apollo 17, formed at least 50 km deep, experienced maximum shock pressures of 6 GPa, and has a 40Ar/39Ar excavation age of 4.25 Ga. Previous work attributed 76535 to the South Pole‐Aitken (SPA) basin, presumably dating the SPA‐impact and constraining lunar bombardment history. Here
Evan Bjonnes   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vitruvius in de middeleeuwen: een verkenning

open access: yesBulletin KNOB, 1998
Although no less than 78 Medieval manuscripts of Vitruvius's De Architectura Libri X (25 B.C.) have been preserved, very little is known of the needs felt in copying the text.
Steven Surdèl
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Alberti and Ficino [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Leon Battista Alberti and Marsilio Ficino, though separated by twenty-nine years in age, had a close relationship as mentor and pupil. Concepts which can be found in Alberti’s De pictura (1435) and De re aedificatoria (1450) are infused in Ficino’s De ...
Hendrix, John S
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Methods for rationalization of the design of residential buildings in classical antiquity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The description of residential buildings in the past is made possible by studying the physical structure of the preserved architectural and movable archaeological finds, and also by the analysis of the written (epigraphic and numismatic ...
Jovanović Goran, Mirić Aleksandra
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The Impact of DNA as a Chemical Admixture for Cementitious Materials

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, Volume 10, Issue 15, August 7, 2025.
DNA molecules are added to cement pastes and their effects on rheology and hydration time are studied. DNA's chemical structure is composed of polysaccharide and phosphate groups, which are active functional groups in different commercial chemical admixtures: Viscosity modifiers and superplasticizers.
Alexander Mezhov   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The operational concepts in the Vitruvian system of design

open access: yesArchai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2019
The study aims to contribute to understand the Vitruvian design system through the analysis of the temples described in the text leading to the three key concepts related: proportio, commensus and commodulatio.
Leandro Manenti
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Kozmos = arhitektura

open access: yesLinguistica, 1985
Tisti, ki se ima za arhitekta, mora (med drugim) biti seznanjen z zvezdoslovjem in nebesnimi računi … Kajti v astrologiji (arhitekt) spozna … nebesni red.
Tine Kurent
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Review of Henry S. Turner, \u3ci\u3eThe English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580–1630\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, Henry Turner argues that English stage practice emerged out of practical geometry and related mechanical arts.
Spiller, Elizabeth
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