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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show myself of very considerable importance not only to builders but also to all scholars.

Art, Promise, Volume, Builders, Considerable
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Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens

Medicine, Heaven, Attention, Know, Opinions, Geometry

Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.

Order, Architecture, Economy, Eurythmy, Symmetry

Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty

Mirrors, Law, Perfection, Essential, Building

In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.

Theatre, Principles, May, Accordance, Investigations, Fashioned

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

Drawing, Architecture, Architect, Understand
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