Formulated year places an architectural idea in the period when it was first written down or argued for. Wikipedia notes that "the earliest surviving text on architectural theories is the 1st century BC treatise De architectura" by the Roman architect Vitruvius, who held that a good building needed durability, utility and beauty together. Browsing by formulated year traces how architectural thinking has built on itself across centuries.
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Era of Emergence Origin Region 1780s
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Vitruvius, the architect, says in his architectural work that the measurements of man are in nature distributed in this manner, that is 4 fingers make a palm, 4 palms make a foot, 6 palms make a cubit, 4 cubits make a man.
Wikipedia, Vitruvian Man, proportion canon section, region
Vitruvius, the architect, says in his architectural work that the measurements of man are in nature distributed in this manner, that is 4 fingers make a palm, 4 palms make a foot, 6 palms make a cubit, 4 cubits make a man.
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