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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: ON CLIMATE AS DETERMINING THE STYLE OF THE HOUSE
CHAPTER II: SYMMETRY, AND MODIFICATIONS IN IT TO SUIT THE SITE
CHAPTER III: PROPORTIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL ROOMS
CHAPTER IV: THE PROPER EXPOSURES OF THE DIFFERENT ROOMS
CHAPTER V: HOW THE ROOMS SHOULD BE SUITED TO THE STATION OF THE OWNER
CHAPTER VI: THE FARMHOUSE
CHAPTER VII: THE GREEK HOUSE
CHAPTER VIII: ON FOUNDATIONS AND SUBSTRUCTURES
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5. Hence, the first thing to settle is the standard of symmetry, from which we need not hesitate to vary. Then, lay out the ground lines of the length and breadth of the work proposed, and when once we have determined its size, let the construction follow this with due regard to beauty of proportion, so that the beholder may feel no doubt of the eurythmy of its effect. I must now tell how this may be brought about, and first I will speak of the proper construction of a cavaedium.
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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