In that 10-volume work, he discusses city planning, building materials, and the origin of the Greek orders of architecture.
Fifty-five manuscripts of his work have appeared, with oldest surviving one written in the 9th century at Jarrow. He is the original source for information on the people of Caryae, Dorus, king of Achaea, and the sculptor Callimachus and his sprouting acanthus leaves. The shrine at Fano in Umbria is the only one of his works that is extant, though he lives on in Leone Battista Alberti's designs and the treatise, De Re Aedificatoria, which was based on this man's De Architectura. In that 10-volume work, he discusses city planning, building materials, and the origin of the Greek orders of architecture. FTP, identify this 1st century BC Roman architect.
Fifty-five manuscripts of his work have appeared, with oldest surviving one written in the 9th century at Jarrow.
Vitruvius or Marcus Vitruvius Pollio