The letters of Pliny the Younger (61-113AD) a prominent lawyer and administrator of the senator class constitute a remarkable self-portrait from Classical Antiquity.
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Article for The Journal of the Worshipful Company of Masons, 2019-2020 Issue]
Newham, a new country house in Cornwall, may look traditional but it addresses two urgent contemporary issues:
As is widely known, the Ten Books on Architecture written by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c75BC- 15BC) is the only text on architectural principles to have survived from Classical Antiquity.
All houses have some rooms that are more important than others – a living room is more important than a third bedroom, for example. In Georgian houses the ranking of rooms into orders of importance was particularly marked and it is vital that this concept is understood when restoring or repairing a Georgian house. It will not do to select something and apply it everywhere, that was not the Georgian way.
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