Architecture, Mysticism and Myth

The oldest surviving treatise on architecture, in Morgan's translation. Vitruvius sets out the ratios for temples and derives them from the proportions of the human body, the passage that later produced Vitruvian Man.

Vitruvius

Hankin reverse engineers Islamic star patterns and shows the hidden construction lines that generate them. Once you see the method, the patterns stop looking impossible to draw.

E. H. Hankin

Hambidge applies his dynamic symmetry analysis to temple plans and elevations, arguing the Greeks laid them out with root rectangles. Detailed measured drawings throughout.

Jay Hambidge