Walls & Doors

All arts and crafts have a history, and histories must start somewhere. Around the end of the Middle Ages scholars of ancient literature—first in some Italian cities— began ruminating on the idea that architecture was born on the shores of Greece and Italy (and not in the ancient Near East, as the Bible claims); they also concluded that Greek and Roman architecture built during the age we now call classical was the best of all time, which in turn prompted architects to imitate it—or “revive” it, as they claimed. This was the beginning of the classical tradition that has since held sway over the architecture of Christian Europe, with some interruptions, almost to the present day—in Europe and elsewhere. When Renaissance humanists started their studies of antiquity, they stumbled on a book on architecture written around the end of the first century BCE by someone named Vitruvius—apparently a military engineer—and they thought that book could help them continued on page 64

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