Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Vitruvius' De Architectura. Written almost exactly two thousand years ago, Vitruvius' work is a ten-volume treatise on engineering and architecture, the only ...

Editor's note: In Thursday's programme Melvyn Bragg and his guests discussed Vitruvius and De Architectura. As always the programme is available to listen to online or to download and keep - EMcN.

Rome, the superpower of the ancient world, was a great fountainhead of culture, literature, military science, philosophy, and above all else, architecture. A lot of the Roman Empire’s architectural ...

All arts and crafts have a history, and histories must start somewhere. Around the end of the Middle Ages scholars of ancient literature—first in some Italian cities— began ruminating on the idea that ...

In March, local universities and libraries began a yearlong celebration of the 500th anniversary of the first architecture book, Vitruvius’s De Architectura libri decem; the Oak Park Public Library ...

Unorthodox as it may seem to write about Vitruvius in a property supplement dedicated to design, no text on the art of building can be complete without mention of his book, De architectura, written ...