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Benjamin Thommen

Der schreibende Architekt

Programm, Form und Theorie von Vitruvs De architectura
[The Writing Architect. Program, Form, and Theory of Vitruvius' De architectura.]
2025. Approx. 420 pages.
forthcoming in May 2025
DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-164223-4
Published in German.
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Summary
Benjamin Thommen sheds light on the literary crafting of Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture. Based on Vitruvius' programmatic statements about his role and his claim and by looking at the textbooks (treatises) of the Roman rhetoricians, he analyses the form of the architect's writing and the structure of his theory.

Themes and Forms in Graeco-Roman Literature (ThFGRL)