Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων arkhitekton "architect", from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder") is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings and other physical structures. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements. 

The earliest surviving written work on the subject of architecture is De architectura, by the Roman architect Vitruvius in the early 1st century AD. According to Vitruvius, a good building should satisfy the three principles of firmitas, utilitas, venustas, commonly known by the original translation – firmness, commodity and delight. An equivalent in modern English would be: 

According to Vitruvius, the architect should strive to fulfill each of these three attributes as well as possible. Leon Battista Alberti, who elaborates on the ideas of Vitruvius in his treatise, De Re Aedificatoria, saw beauty primarily as a matter of proportion, although ornament also played a part. For Alberti, the rules of proportion were those that governed the idealised human figure, the Golden mean. The most important aspect of beauty was therefore an inherent part of an object, rather than something applied superficially; and was based on universal, recognisable truths. The notion of style in the arts was not developed until the 16th century, with the writing of Vasari: by the 18th century, his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects had been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and English.
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Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
 Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
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Italian, French, Spanish and English.
Italian, French, Spanish and English.
Italian, French, Spanish and English.
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The earliest surviving written work on the subject of architecture is De architectura, by the Roman architect Vitruvius
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by the Roman architect Vitruvius in the early 1st century AD.
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by the Roman architect Vitruvius in the early 1st century AD.
De architectura
The earliest surviving written work on the subject of architecture is De architectura, by the Roman architect Vitruvius in the early 1st century AD.
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According to Vitruvius, a good building should satisfy the three principles of firmitas, utilitas, venustas,
firmitas, utilitas, and venustas
According to Vitruvius, a good building should satisfy the three principles of firmitas, utilitas, venustas
firmness, commodity and delight
 commonly known by the original translation – firmness, commodity and delight. An equivalent in modern English would be: 
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Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων arkhitekton "architect", from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder") 
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Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων arkhitekton "architect", from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder")
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Architecture (Latin architectura,
De Re Aedificatoria
 De Re Aedificatoria, saw beauty primarily as a matter of proportion, although ornament also played a part. For Alberti, the rules of proportion were those that governed the idealised human figure, the Golden mean.
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Leon Battista Alberti, who elaborates on the ideas of Vitruvius in his treatise
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For Alberti, the rules of proportion were those that governed the idealised human figure,
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 For Alberti, the rules of proportion were those that governed the idealised human figure, 