Vitruvius, architect and engineer: Buildings and building techniques in Augustan Rome

by Alexander Gordon McKay

88 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1978

About the author

Alexander Gordon "Sandy" McKay, OC FRSC (December 24, 1924 – August 31, 2007) was a Canadian academic who specialized in Vergilian studies.
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[Pete Missingham · Rating 5 out of 5]

A short biography of Vitruvius, necessarily short because of the lack of genuine knowledge, and a discussion of his architecture, with engineering being almost an afterthought. There are 24 illustrations, the majority of them helpfully placed to illustrate the sometimes torturous textual descriptions.