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PREFACE
CHAPTER I: THE EDUCATION OF THE ARCHITECT
CHAPTER II: THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE
CHAPTER III: THE DEPARTMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
CHAPTER IV: THE SITE OF A CITY
CHAPTER V: THE CITY WALLS
CHAPTER VI: THE DIRECTIONS OF THE STREETS; WITH REMARKS ON THE WINDS
CHAPTER VII: THE SITES FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS
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2. These variations in heat and the subsequent cooling off are harmful to the people living on such sites. The same conclusion may be reached in the case of inanimate things. For instance, nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is always constant and unshifting. So it is with granaries: grain exposed to the sun's course soon loses its good quality, and provisions and fruit, unless stored in a place unexposed to the sun's course, do not keep long.
Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture. Vitruvius. Morris Hicky Morgan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1914.
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