The text of the De architectura offers specific clues that one of Vitruvius' aims is the potential application of his instructions. Vitruvius invites the architect to judge what is possible and to adapt himself to necessity: it is in that adaptability that he proves both his practical experience and his technical skill and intellectual quaiities. In the adaptability to 'what is possible', the blending of theoretical aptitude and practical ability, of rationatio and fabrica, is achieved, and so is one of the theoretical requirements of the architect's scientia.
Si qui voluerit. Vitruvius on Architecture as “the Art of the Possible”
ROMANO, ELISA
2017-01-01
Abstract
The text of the De architectura offers specific clues that one of Vitruvius' aims is the potential application of his instructions. Vitruvius invites the architect to judge what is possible and to adapt himself to necessity: it is in that adaptability that he proves both his practical experience and his technical skill and intellectual quaiities. In the adaptability to 'what is possible', the blending of theoretical aptitude and practical ability, of rationatio and fabrica, is achieved, and so is one of the theoretical requirements of the architect's scientia.File in questo prodotto:
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