Tag: Vitruvius

Architecture, Transdisciplinary

Anachronistic Interpretations of Space

These considerations arose from a recent conversation I had with a colleague architect about the reception of the concept of space in architecture before the modern epoch. I hope they can help avoid possible misinterpretations where, in a previous article — Concepts of Space in Vitruvius —, I discussed the possibility of interpreting space (spatium) in a three-dimensional sense in…

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Books, History of Architecture

Concepts of Space in Vitruvius

The previous article — Place Space and the Unicorn — could be seen as a prologue to this one, as it lays out the premises and reasons that led me to analyze Vitruvius’s ancient text De Architectura, written by the Roman architect in the first century B.C.,  in order to understand how the concept of space was interpreted across the…

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