The Ten Books on Architecture, known in Latin as De Architectura, is the only complete treatise on architecture to survive from classical antiquity. It was written by the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius in the reign of Augustus, to whom it is dedicated, probably between about 30 and 15 BC.
Vitruvius · CatalogVitruviusVitruvius · CatalogVitruvius (active 1st century BC) was a Roman architect and military engineer who served under Julius Caesar and Augustus.The Ten Books on Architecture
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Short biography: Vitruvius in Great Lives