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BRINKMAN CLARK, Lars William. Plautus’ Architects. Notes on the concept of Architectural Prudence in Aristotle. Rev. filos. Univ. Iberoam. [online]. 2023, vol.55, n.154, pp.68-108.  Epub 17-Mayo-2024. ISSN 2954-4602.  https://doi.org/10.48102/rdf.v55i154.163.

Since antiquity, the Vitruvian tradition has dominated the ways in which western thought has framed Architecture and the role of the Architect. This tradition has made architecture a discipline that is necessarily related to the design and construction of a building, as well as to the object itself. However, at the time Vitruvius was writing his De Architectura, different notions of what Architecture is permeated the writings of philosophers and playwrights. In Cicero and Euripides, but specially in Plautus, we can find Architectures with ends that deviated from Art and came closer to Politics, and architects with faculties that had less to do with technic and more with prudence. With the help of Aristotelic thought we will see that the figures of these architects came not from the whims of dramaturgs or moralists, and were in fact sustained on a epistemological and practical base that found in Architecture a mode of thought and action that went well beyond the design and construction of buildings.

Palabras llave : Architectural Theory; Philosophy of Architecture; Aristotle; Architect; Techne; Prudence; Ethics.