A treatise written in Latin on architecture; dedicated to the emperor Augustus. In the preface of Book I; Vitruvius dedicates his writings so as to give personal knowledge of the quality of buildings to the emperor. Likely Vitruvius is referring to Marcus Agrippa’s campaign of public repairs and improvements. This work is the only surviving major book on architecture from classical antiquity. According to Vitruvius; architecture is an imitation of nature. As birds and bees built their nests; so humans constructed housing from natural materials; that gave them shelter against the elements. When perfecting this art of building; the Greeks invented the architectural orders.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Movies; Emotional Orders and Therapeutic RegimesBy HistoryThis collection contains texts by Peter Stearns on American Anger and Anger Management. Stella Bruzzi; professor of Film and Television Studies at Warwick University; writes on re-enacting trauma in film and television. The Spanish expert on audio-visual media; Miguel Huerta; dissects Woody Allen; and Sally Chivers; Trent Center for Aging and Society; gives a close reading of Michael Hanekes movie Amour (2012).Michael Geyer; Department of History; University of Chicago states; "If textual fiction was the medium of emotions; emotional management and therapy in the 19th Century; audiovisual and digital media have taken on this role in the late 20th and 21st Centuries. This volume opens up venues for audacious forays into a new world ndash; a new world of transdisciplinary European scholarship as much as of the yet to be charted emotional regimes of our time and their genealogies. The collected essays make abundantly clear the wrenching dislocations ndash; of a time in-between emotional orders; in-between modes of mediation; and in-between therapeutic regimes -- that have come to characterize the contemporary world."
