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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
De architectura De architectura Vitruvius Pollio De architectura, or On Architecture in English (published as Ten Books on Architecture) is a treatise on architecture written around 15 BC by the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio as a guide fo… OL1847603W
Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette (Texts & Documents) Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette (Texts & Documents) Giovanni Battista Piranesi "The engraver and designer Giovanni Battista Piranesi published this lively three-part defense of Roman architectural "invention" in 1765, just as the "beautiful and noble simplicity" of ancient Gree… OL2827088W
Vitruvius Vitruvius Indra Kagis McEwen "Vitruvius's De architectura is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, and until the eighteenth century it was the text to which all other architectural treatises re… OL3928130W