Vitruvius and De Architectura
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Vitruvius's View of the Architect
Vitruvius is very keen to mention as if you like fall bears, not just other architects, but also mathematicians whose work didn't directly impinge on architecture. He's drawing on other Greek scholars apart from those who might not have written an architecture. There's this engine which he's saying, look, we're important too. We have to have all-world in knowledge, the idea of an architect. You suspect that behind it is a feeling that you probably just thought we were engineers who knocked up these buildings and built catapults for you in war. But we are as important as the state as an army, the city is an important place.
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