This new, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture is the first to be published for an English-language audience in more than half a century. The translation, along with the critical commentary and illustrations, aims to shape a new image of Vitruvius who emerges as an inventive, creative thinker.

The new edition of the only architectural treatise from antiquity demonstrates the range of Vitruvius' style and includes examples from archeological sites discovered since World War II and not previously published in English language translations. 110 diagrams.