The Drawing of Geometric Patterns in Saracenic Art

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

Lethaby reads buildings as cosmology: the dome as sky, the pavement as earth, the four squares of the plan as the four quarters. An architect explaining why sacred buildings keep repeating the same geometry.

W. R. Lethaby

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