Digital Vitruvio, ovvero elogio del triangolo equilatero

On interpretation of an architectural project,triangle’s form generally refers both to plans oforganic architecture and to fronts of Romanesqueand Gothic churches. This wonderful form,that contains God’s eye, is, according to Vitruvius,the geometric generative principle of the Roman Theatre. Everybody knows that De Architecturaarrived to us without images; in the past there were innumerable interpretations, from editio princeps (1486). A digital transcriptions, that follows side by side a Vitruvius’ book’s translation, highlights the compositional process that defines that the equilateral triangle is the geometric element that give origin to the composition of theatre.