The Tower of the Winds of Andronikos of Kyrros
Bernard Cache
This text focuses on the first building mentioned by Vitrivius in his De Architectura: Tower of Winds built Andronikos de Kyrros about bce100. plainly deserves to be qualified as inaugural, not only because its place treatise architecture within occidental tradition but also diagram plan which appears concentrate five geometrical propositions Thales, Greek mathematician, needed divide sky into four regions each augur would do when it came inaugurate a city. In addition, this had nine solar clocks and housed huge water clock, provided astronomical information. inaugural was thus machine, machine à habiter Le Corbusier have claimed, informer, just is Toyo Ito's contemporary Winds.
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