"They invented ways of using the orders not merely as ornamental enrichments for their new types of structure but as controls. The orders are, in many Roman buildings, quite useless structurally but they make their buildings expressive, they make them speak; they conduct the building, with sense and "
"Classical architecture has always, even in ancient times, depended on precedents and, therefore, on written treatises. Vitruvius himself declared his indebtedness to ancient authors and the classicism of the modern world has been to a great extent dependent on Vitruvius. Editions of his work, theref"
"Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1552)'s treatise, published in his lifetime six books of architecture during 1537 and 1551, and the two posthumous books published in 1575. The first five were assembled as a single treatise, subjecting Gerometry, Perspective, Antiquities, The Orders and Churches; and the lat"