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| | MSN Encarta - Vitruvius |
 | | 90-20 bc), Roman architect and engineer, whose treatise, De Architectura, has been valued as a treatise of Classical architecture from the Renaissance onward. |
 | | De Architectura, in ten books, is the oldest surviving work on the subject; it consists of dissertations on a wide variety of subjects relating to architecture, engineering, sanitation, practical hydraulics, acoustics, and the like. |
 | | Vitruvius continues to inspire a large number of architects who see themselves as working within the Classical tradition. |
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