Courses
Reading Vitruvius Register Now!
5 weekend sessions: Saturdays, March 24, 31, April 14, 21, 28, 2012; 10am–1pm
(Includes site visit to Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture is our sole surviving text from Antiquity on the subject, and as such, have occupied a central place in our re-engagement with the Art of Greco-Roman Architecture from the Renaissance to the present day. The appropriation of Vitruvius is an absorbing (and vast) field of study. However, this short class focuses instead on Vitruvius the Student of the Art and Craft of Architecture of the Late Roman Republic. Thus we shall begin to engage directly with the witness of the Text itself, what Vitruvius has to tell us of his World, himself, and the place and role of Architecture within it. The specific version of the text used shall primarily be Thomas Gordon Smith’s recent edition. We shall be reading Vitruvius.
Instructor: Michael Djordjevitch, ICAA Instructor
Location: ICAA, 20 West 44th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY
Cost/Continuing Education Hours: $340 ($295 Members); 15 AIA/CES CEHs