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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: ON CLIMATE AS DETERMINING THE STYLE OF THE HOUSE
CHAPTER II: SYMMETRY, AND MODIFICATIONS IN IT TO SUIT THE SITE
CHAPTER III: PROPORTIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL ROOMS
CHAPTER IV: THE PROPER EXPOSURES OF THE DIFFERENT ROOMS
CHAPTER V: HOW THE ROOMS SHOULD BE SUITED TO THE STATION OF THE OWNER
CHAPTER VI: THE FARMHOUSE
CHAPTER VII: THE GREEK HOUSE
CHAPTER VIII: ON FOUNDATIONS AND SUBSTRUCTURES
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6. We must take care that all buildings are well lighted, but this is obviously an easier matter with those which are on country estates, because there can be no neighbour's wall to interfere, whereas in town high party walls or limited space obstruct the light and make them dark. Hence we must apply the following test in this matter. On the side from which the light should be obtained let a line be stretched from the top of the wall that seems to obstruct the light to the point at which it ought to be introduced, and if a considerable space of open sky can be seen when one looks up above that line, there will be no obstruction to the light in that situation.
Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture. Vitruvius. Morris Hicky Morgan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1914.
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