Architecture, Engineering and Building Science: The Contemporary Relevance of Vitruvius’s De Architectura
Lino Bianco
Conferences worldwide focus on a range of disciplines relating to the construction built environment. They tend emphasize either art or science building, former focusing architectural theory and design while latter targets topics from civil and/or building engineering physics. Vitruvius’s De Architectura Libri Decem is seminal treatise more than two millennia old which addresses these themes in holistic manner. This text remains valid today for students professionals engaged architecture engineering. Translated as Ten Books Architecture, it not only presents an overall view town planning, engineering, along with qualifications required practice them, but also materials, civil-engineering structures influencing buildings. Although grounded technology Ancient Rome, principles put forward this are still nowadays effective, sustainable architectural-engineering based rigorous education good knowledge materials construction. definition architecture—the one customarily used—is inclusive philosophical statement essence humanity house humanity. It recalls symbiotic relation between that often forgotten contemporary emphasis specialization.
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