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Vitruvius - Ten Books on Architecture by Ingrid D. Rowland (Editor, Translator); Thomas Noble Howe (Commentaries by, Illustrator, Editor); Vitruvius
Call Number: NA2515 .V6135 1999

Publication Date: 2001

The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped humanist architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present.
Greek and Roman Technology (eBook) by John William Humphrey; John Peter Oleson; Andrew N. Sherwood
Publication Date: 2003

In this volume the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient authors to provide a history and an analysis of the origins and development of technology.
Ancient Greek Architects at Work by J. J. Coulton
Call Number: NA270 .C65 1977

Publication Date: 1977

A study of the problems of structure and design, this book relates the architect to the society in which he worked; it shows him as a designer, structural engineer and director of works; it identifies the problems that architects encountered and suggests solutions.