Vitruvius Without Text

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ANDRÉ TAVARES VITRUVIUS WITHOUT TEXT THE BIOGRAPHY OF A BOOK Vitruvius’s De architectura, written in the first century BCE, is revered /a.ss01s the first tre/a.ss01tise on /a.ss01rchitectur/a.ss01l theory. Since its resurrection during the Ren/a.ss01iss/a.ss01nce, this enigm/a.ss01tic text h/a.ss01s been /a.ss01djusted, refined, /a.ss01nd redefined in its subsequent iter/a.ss01tions. The book /a.ss01t h/a.ss01nd byp/a.ss01sses exegeses of the text to focus on the m /a.ss01teri/a.ss01l history of the printed editions dis - semin/a.ss01 ted throughout Europe. It surveys over /a.ss01 hundred editions of Vitruvius, from /one.tf/four.tf/eight.tf/six.tf.ss11 to the present, tr /a.ss01cing the power of the printed p/a.ss01ge in est/a.ss01blishing the Rom/a.ss01n /a.ss01uthor /a.ss01s /a.ss01n /a.ss01uthority. Focusing on the imp/a.ss01 ct of the physic /a.ss01l objects th/a.ss01t embody the Vitruvi/a.ss01n c/a.ss01non highlights how book history /a.ss01nd /a.ss01rchitectur/a.ss01 l history cross p/a.ss01 ths /a.ss01nd how /a.ss01 symbiotic rel /a.ss01tionship between the printed /a.ss01nd the built emerged. The resulting picture is th/a.ss01t of /a.ss01 zigz/a.ss01gging thre/a.ss01d between pr/a.ss01ctice /a.ss01nd theory—/a.ss01n elusive network of fruitful insouci/a.ss01nce in /a.ss01rchitecture. gt/a.ss01 Verlag gta edition 1

VITRUVIUS WITHOUT TEXT THE BIOGRAPHY OF A BOOK ANDRÉ TAVARES

PROLOGUE 07 THE BIOGRAPHY OF A BOOK 25 Setting Authority, 1486–1536 26 Crossing Regional Boundaries, 1526–1556 41 The Age of Orders, 1556–1649 55 Grounding Theory, 1673–1791 68 Diffuse Knowledge, 1796–1909 88 Author of the Twentieth Century, 1914–1964 Vitruvius Academicus, 1964–2016 124 THE TETRASTYLE HYPOTHESIS 141 Proportional Deadlock 144 The T omar Enigma 157 Model and Theory 176 Shifting Type 195 Vitruvius by Accident 212 EPILOGUE 225 VITRUVIANA 1486–2016 231 ANNEX 257 Bibliography 258 Image Credits 272 Acknowledgments 274