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The Five Orders of Architecture (Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura) is a book on classical architecture by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola from 1562, and is considered "one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written", [1] despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction. [2]
The Classical Orders Of Architecture. Elsevier/Architectural Press. ISBN 978-0-7506-6124-9. James Stevens Curl (2003). Classical Architecture: An Introduction to Its Vocabulary and Essentials, With a Select Glossary of Terms. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-73119-4. John Newenham Summerson (1963). The Classical Language of Architecture ...
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This strong order was considered most appropriate in military architecture and in docks and warehouses when they were dignified by architectural treatment. Serlio found it "suitable to fortified places, such as city gates, fortresses, castles, treasuries, or where artillery and ammunition are kept, prisons, seaports and other similar structures ...
Hart, Vaughan, Day, Alan (1995). ‘A Computer Model of the Theatre of Sebastiano Serlio, 1545’, Computers and the History of Art, Harwood Academic Publishers, vol.5 no.1, pp.41-52. Hart, Vaughan (1998), ‘Decorum and the five Order of Architecture: Sebastiano Serlio’s Military City’, RES: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics, pp.75-84.
The Five Orders illustrated by Vignola, 1641 Unlike the Composite capital, this Ionic capital has a different appearance from the front and sides. The Composite is partly based on the Ionic order, where the volutes (seen frontally) are joined by an essentially horizontal element across the top of the capital, so that they resemble a scroll partly rolled at each end.
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Robert Chitham (1935 or 36 – 13 September 2017) [1] was a British architect and writer. He was the author of The Classical Orders of Architecture published in 1985. A revised edition was published in 2005. [2]