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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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7. All this, however, I have not set forth for the purpose of changing the usual terminology or language, but I have thought that it should be explained so that it may be known to scholars. I have now explained the usual ways of planning houses both in the Italian fashion and according to the practices of the Greeks, and have described, with regard to their symmetry, the proportions of the different classes. Having, therefore, already written of their beauty and propriety, I shall next explain, with reference to durability, how they may be built to last to a great age without defects.
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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