Vitruvius

Mathematician debunks 2,000-year-old Parthenon optical illusion myth

For more than 2,000 years, scholars have maintained that the Parthenon's subtle curves were a feat of visual engineering — deliberate corrections designed to make the temple appear perfectly straight to the human eye. A University of Oxford mathematician now…

Italy finds public building believed to be designed by Vitruvius

Italian officials on Monday announced the discovery of a more than 2,000-year-old public building attributed to Vitruvius, the ancient Roman architect and engineer known as the "father of architecture." The announcement ends a centuries-long search for the only structure the…