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(0)Werner Hegemann
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Language
English
Formats
Description
This atlas of architectural design advocates rational as well as humanistic principles in the development of the urban environment. Drawing upon the ideals that inspired the great Roman architect, it promotes the Vitruvian maxims of longevity, beauty, and commodity. It also defines the thinking behind modern American city planning.
First published in 1922, The American Vitruvius arose from a collaboration between two students of American...
First published in 1922, The American Vitruvius arose from a collaboration between two students of American...
Author
Language
English
Description
"American Vitruvius: an Architects' Handbook of Civic Art. At the end of the second decade of this [the twentieth] century, Werner Hegemann, a German-born urban planning theorist and practitioner, and Elbert Peets, a young American recently graduated from Harvard University's School of Landscape Architecture, joined together in Wisconsin in a professional partnership. The association of these two students of American urbanism culminated in 1922 with...
Series
Water science and technology volume 29, no. 12
Publisher
Pergamon
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English