Drawings in Greek and Roman Architecture

Ancient buildings began as ideas before they became stone, and Antonio Corso asks what role drawing played in that process. Plans, diagrams and other visual aids appear across Greek and Roman architectural practice, yet the evidence for them is scattered and often indirect.

Corso brings literary testimony into conversation with archaeological material to reconstruct how drawing may have been used to design buildings, communicate plans and think through architectural problems. By recovering these working methods, the book makes visible a stage of ancient architecture that usually disappears behind the finished building.