Exegetische Briefe über des Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Baukunst : an August Rode
An 1801 German treatise published by Vieweg in Braunschweig, written by Hans Christian Genelli and addressed to August Rode as a set of letters interpreting Vitruvius's architecture for a learned readership. Its plates are measured plan drawings of ancient temples and public buildings, showing column grids, cella walls and stepped platforms in flat grey tones. A designer could take from them the clear diagrammatic language of classical plans, with regular dot-and-circle colonnades and hatched walls that read well as graphic pattern.
