Ancient World
Ten Books on Architecture
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
2026
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The only architectural treatise to survive from the ancient world, and Europe rebuilt itself out of it. Vitruvius wrote for Augustus: how to site a town, choose water, mix mortar, season timber, plan a temple, build a theatre with sound in it, and make war machines. Fifteen hundred years later the Renaissance found the manuscript and treated it as scripture. Strength, utility, beauty, in that order.
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39 chapters
- 1Translator\'s preface8m
- 2Book I, Preface and Chapter I21m
- 3Book I, Chapter II-III11m
- 4Book I, Chapter IV-V17m
- 5Book I, Chapter VI-VII16m
- 6Book II, Introduction and Chapter I-II17m
- 7Book II, Chapter III-VI15m
- 8Book II, Chapter VII-VIII21m
- 9Book II, Chapter IX-X16m
- 10Book III, Introduction and Chapter I-II17m
- 11Book III, Chapter III-IV13m
- 12Book III, Chapter V13m
- 13Book IV, Introduction and Chapters I-II16m
- 14Book IV, Chapter III-V12m
- 15Book IV, Chapter VI-IX13m
- 16Book V, Introduction and Chapter I-III17m
- 17Book V, Chapter IV-V12m
- 18Book V, Chapter VI-IX17m
- 19Book V, Chapter X-XII12m
- 20Book VI, Introduction and Chapter 115m
- 21Book VI, Chapter II-V15m
- 22Book VI, Chapter VI-VIII17m
- 23Book VII, Introduction14m
- 24Book VII, Chapter I-III15m
- 25Book VII, Chapter IV-VII15m
- 26Book VII, Chapter VIII-XIV13m
- 27Book VIII, Introduction and Chapter I-II16m
- 28Book VIII, Chapter III22m
- 29Book VIII, Chapter IV-VI15m
- 30Book IX, Introduction13m
- 31Book IX, Chapter I-II17m
- 32Book IX, Chapter III-VI12m
- 33Book IX, Chapter VII-VIII16m
- 34Book X, Introduction and Chapter I8m
- 35Book X, Chapter II11m
- 36Book X, Chapter III-VI14m
- 37Book X, Chapter VII-X16m
- 38Book X, Chapter XI-XIII13m
- 39Book X, Chapter XIV-XVI16m
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