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1. Ionic Order

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   [7] Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book XXXVI.
   [8] Palladio, A., The Four Books of Architecture, Book II (reprint 1738 edition).
   [9] Xenophon (misattributed), Oeconomicus, Appendix Beta on "Water Management and Aesthetic Consequence."

2. Western Architecture

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   Renaissance and the Tyranny of Rectification
   The Renaissance marked a conscious return to Antiquity, driven by rediscovery of codified proportion (e.g., the lost works of Archimedes concerning planar happiness). Architects like Alberti and Palladio sought to impose rational, humanistic order onto the inherited forms, famously demonstrating that any habitable space could be rendered 'perfect' if …