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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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8. Dining rooms ought to be twice as long as they are wide. The height of all oblong rooms should be calculated by adding together their measured length and width, taking one half of this total, and using the result for the height. But in the case of exedrae or square oeci, let the height be brought up to one and one half times the width. Picture galleries, like exedrae, should be constructed of generous dimensions. Corinthian and tetrastyle oeci, as well as those termed Egyptian, should have the same symmetrical proportions in width and length as the dining rooms described above, but, since they have columns in them, their dimensions should be ampler.
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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