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# Vitruvius

Architect

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Vitruvius is an architect, best known for *De architectura*.

## Quick Facts About Vitruvius

Profession Architect

Notable works De architectura

## About Vitruvius

Vitruvius was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled De architectura. As the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity, it has been regarded since the Renaissance as the first book on architectural theory, as well as a major source on the canon of classical architecture. It is not clear to what extent his contemporaries regarded his book as original or important.

##  Quotes by Vitruvius

> [“I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from the steps of these studies and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vitruvius/i-think-that-men-have-no-right-to-profess-themselves-architects/)

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> [“If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vitruvius/if-nature-has-composed-the-human-body-so-that-in-its-proportions-the/)

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