Firmness, commodity, and delight (Latin: firmitas, utilitas et venustas) are the three aspects of good architecture declared by the Roman architect Vitruvius...
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Architecture (redirect from The Art and History of Architecture)
translation – firmness, commodity and delight. An equivalent in modern English would be: Durability – a building should stand up robustly and remain in good...
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reverse of the medallion—firmitas, utilitas, venustas (English: firmness, commodity and delight)—is from Ancient Roman architect Vitruvius. Before 1987, a...
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Visual arts (redirect from Visual Arts and Design)
translation – firmness, commodity and delight. An equivalent in modern English would be: Durability – a building should stand up robustly and remain in good...
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Form (architecture) (redirect from Space and mass)
architecture, "firmness, commodity, and delight", an architect should select a timeless form and then adjust it for the site, use, and appearance (much later...
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De architectura (section Origin and contents)
building hath three conditions: firmness, commodity, and delight". This quote is taken from Sir Henry Wotton's version of 1624, and accurately translates the...
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Henry Wotton (category 16th-century English dramatists and playwrights)
authorship of the quote "Well building hath three conditions: firmness, commodity, and delight", with Vitruvius, from whose de Architectura Wotton translated...
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Vitruvius (section Life and career)
1900 – Firmness, Commodity, and Delight – The University of Chicago Library". www.lib.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 6 April 2022. Mary Corbin Sies and Christopher...
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Architectural theory (section Formalism and space)
Wotton into the English slogan firmness, commodity, and delight (meaning structural adequacy, functional adequacy, and beauty). The rediscovery of Vitruvius'...
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Outline of architecture (category Outlines of computing and engineering)
Vitruvius: defined the essential qualities of architecture as "firmness, commodity, and delight". Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "I call architecture frozen music"...
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are firmness (firmitas), commodity (utilitas), and delight (venustas), which require the architects to be equipped with a varied kind of learning and knowledge...
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Honeycrisp (category Food and drink introduced in 1991)
and released in 1991, the Honeycrisp, once slated to be discarded, has rapidly become a prized commercial commodity, as its sweetness, firmness, and tartness...
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Mondelez International (category Food and drink companies based in Chicago)
2012. Kraft increased prices to offset rising commodity costs for corn, sugar, and cocoa in North America and Europe. According to Rosenfeld, "We expect...
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focused on commodity chains and their contribution to globalization, rather than focusing solely on production sites. Sugar as a commodity was cultivated...
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Poonam Gupta (section Awards, honours and appointments)
global commodities group". HeraldScotland. 21 January 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017. "From preparing to die to building a £20m global commodities group"...
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Escape (TV network), and CourtTV's over-the-air "MYSTERY" channel. The show profiles various cases involving corporate fraud and white collar crimes....
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Marie Callender's Stouffer's Tombstone (pizza) XLNT Foods Ambrosia Angel Delight Ben & Jerry's Bird's Custard Bounty ice cream Eskimo Gü Häagen-Dazs Keventers...
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List of Christmas films (redirect from List of Made-for-Televison and Direct-To-Video Christmas films)
Christmas stories have been adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television. Since the popularization...
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industrialization and urbanization of the country, malleable iron – a form of metal exceptionally stronger than forged iron – became an important commodity in the...
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well-established market price and was sold much like any other commodity; it usually came from war captives, kidnapped strangers, and purchased or bartered slaves...
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List of Melissa & Joey episodes (redirect from List of Melissa and Joey episodes)
Joseph "Joe" Longo (Lawrence), a recently divorced commodities broker, as the nanny for her niece and nephew. The series premiered on August 17, 2010, on...
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Kaori (2009). "The King's Christmas Pudding: globalization, recipes, and the commodities of the empire". Journal of Global History. 4: 127–155. doi:10...
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Charles Dickens (category 19th-century English dramatists and playwrights)
cultural commodity, and its circulation had passed out his control", causing him to become interested in and delve into themes of public and personal...
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Le Quart Livre (section Ennasin and Cheli)
and peregrine" commodities, the term "exotic" being a neologism in the French language. The stalls are distinguished by the presence of luxurious and...
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invaluable food commodities to Hong Kong people. ‘Ding Ding Candy’(叮叮糖) is also known as ‘Deuk Deuk Tong’(啄啄糖) or ‘Ding Ding Tong’ in Cantonese, and it is another...
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Richard Driehaus (category Stock and commodity market managers)
representational form, and individual expression that reflects a community's architectural heritage. There is a delight, proportion, and harmony in classical...
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Ancient Carthage (category States and territories established in the 9th century BC)
Northern Europe, providing commodities from all over the ancient world, in addition to lucrative exports of agricultural products and manufactured goods. This...
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architectura, c. 15 B.C.: firmness, usefulness (or "Commodity" in Henry Wotton's 17th century English), and delight. These can be used as categories for classifying...
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"Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang, released in 1979, begins with the phrase "I said a hip, hop, the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, and you don't...
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described design in terms of utilitas, firmitas and venustas, often translated as commodity, firmness and delight. DQI uses a modern-day interpretation of these...
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