Word: vitruvius
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...When you are coming out of the elevator bank, you see trees and also a park,” Maki said. Meanwhile, another side is an “entirely different sort of environment, more vibrant.” Maki ended with the famous words of Roman architect Vitruvius, who wrote that a structure must exhibit the qualities of utilitas, firmitas, venustas—translated as “useful, strong, and beautiful.” But Maki said that by venustas Vitruvius really meant “delight.” “Beauty is subject to time...
ROME, my Mistress. Vitruvius, my Master, Architecture, my Life." Such was the trinity acknowledged by Andrea Palladio (1518-80), a stonemason's son from Vicenza, Italy, who grew up to rule over a whole generation of fellow architects and to recast the classic style of Rome and Greece with such elegance and authority that his Palladian style became one of the longest-lasting and most widely accepted personal idioms in the history of architecture. In an effort to preserve Pal-ladio's work (many of his most beautiful structures were made of common brick and perishable stucco...
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...under roof, he has been at the mercy of his buildings. What he sees, how he lives, looks, thinks-even how he dies-are overwhelmingly affected by the structures he designs and builds. Through the generations, good builders have tried to measure up to the formula of Roman Architect Vitruvius Pollio, contemporary of Julius Caesar, but they have often thought more of the structure than of its inhabitants, and have at times produced more monstrosity than delight, more discomfort than commodity. But in mid-20th century the art of well-building has reached a high state, and is moving toward...
...great hall adjacent to this place of judgment, however, that the gloomy and darkling splendour of the palace really displayed itself. Here massy pillars of stone supported the great arch of the roof, decorated in the Roman fashion which Vitruvius has taught us so well to admire. Below the glory of this reticulated ceiling, effulgent with the light of a thousand candles, lived and worked the other unfortunate inmates of the vast and awe-inspiring edifice. Unfortunate they were indeed to be called, for not one of them who appeared smiling and joyous but wore his smile as a mask...