The first chapter of this book deals with the
life of Vitruvius, the great architect of antiquity and
his codex "De Arquitectura", a source of analysis on
architectural syntax and mythologies related to the
art of construction, being his codex on the Greco-
Latin construction and its symbols, the oldest
preserved to date. In the following chapters, the
symbols associated with ancestral gods and sacred
places are shared with the reader and how they
represented numbers and geometries for peoples such
as the Egyptian or the Greek, in an ideology loaded
with architectural symbols. For the bronze age man,
the earth as the continent of the world, was perceived
as the "Great House". Natural events such as the
overflow of the Nile River or the observation of the
North Star, the only star that appears to be motionless
from the perspective of the earth, created in the
imagination of antiquity the need to internalize
certain events as architectural objects. In chapter six
and seven the symbology of one of the most
important temples for the human collective is
studied, the temple of King Solomon, its columns
and its relationship with the letter Yod. In its genesis
this logo was related to a desert deity who was
worshiped as a fundamental pillar and fire for all
consumers, an ancestral idea common to local
people. In the following chapters there will be a tour
of architectural forms and how these were linked to
Indo-European concepts such as that of the
fundamental hill of creation, mythology that saw the
world as a "Great ship-shaped construction". From
them and from the search of the ancient world for
architectural beauty and organicity, the concept of the
golden number emerged, present throughout the
natural world. Modulor used in all the great works of
the past as a means of organizing spaces in a
harmonious way, acting as nature does in a clear and
efficient way. Chapter ten deals with poems from the
Al-Andalus world and its relationship with
architecture, in addition to studying cultural objects
such as the bronze sea of the temple of King
Solomon that, related to the celestial, hold the key to
the decoding of said architecture.
