There are two styles of walls "opus reticulatum," now used by everybody and the ancient style called "opus incertum." Of these, the reticulatum looks….

The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class..

Of course, we need not be surprised if artistic excellence goes unrecognized on account of being unknown; but there should be the greatest indignatio….

Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy..

In all matters but particularly in architecture, that which is signified is the subject of which we may be speaking and that which gives significance….

Next I must tell about the machine of Ctesibius, which raises water to a height..

For not all things are practicable on identical principles.

Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before..

Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth….

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each o….

A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the ….

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring rep….

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings..

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music..

A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away..

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each oth….

Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a prett….

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towar….

The winter oak... is very useful in buildings but when in a moist place it takes in water to its centre... and so it rots. The Turkey oak and the bee….

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built..

At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which a….