Vitruvius Quote

Architects who without culture aim at manual skill cannot gain a prestige corresponding to their labours, while those who trust to theory and literature obviously follow a shadow and not reality. But those who have mastered both, like men equipped in full armor, soon acquire influence and attain their purpose.


Vitruvius on Architecture (Volume 1), Book I, Chapter I, 2 (p. 7)


Architects who without culture aim at manual skill cannot gain a prestige corresponding to their labours, while those who trust to theory and...

Architects who without culture aim at manual skill cannot gain a prestige corresponding to their labours, while those who trust to theory and...

Architects who without culture aim at manual skill cannot gain a prestige corresponding to their labours, while those who trust to theory and...

Architects who without culture aim at manual skill cannot gain a prestige corresponding to their labours, while those who trust to theory and...