A Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Roman - Author
81 BC - 15

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