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Marcus Pollius Vitruvius - De Architectura - Teubner 1899 edition.
Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture - The full text of the English translation by Morris Hicky Morgan (1914), hosted by the Perseus Project. Easy navigation through the text; map of sites mentioned.
Plates from Cesariano's Edition of Vitruvius - Woodblock illustrations were added to Vitruvius's text in the edition published by Cesare Cesariano (Como 1521). Images from Art Serve at the Australian National University.
Vitruvius, On Architecture - 12 plates from an 18th-century Venetian edition, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania.
Wikipedia: Vitruvius - Biography of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Roman architect of the 1st century BC, most noted as the author of De Architectura.
Vitruvius: 1st Century BC Roman Architect - Brief biography and outline of the contents of his famous work 'De architectura' from HyperHistory Online.
Vitruvius (c. 70-25 BC) - Very brief biography of the author of the earliest surviving treatise on architecture - 'De architectura' (On Architecture) - from Eric Weisstein's Treasure Troves of Science.
Vitruvius: De Architectura - Editionis latinae Teubner 1899. Lacus Curtius.
On Architecture - Text of the English-language translation of 1826 by Joseph Gwilt, as well as a French translation and the Latin text (Teubner 1899 edition), hosted by Bill Thayer in his Lacus Curtius site.

De architectura - De architectura (Latin: "On architecture") is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus.
De Re Aedificatoria - De re aedificatoria (English: On the Art of Building) is a classic architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti in 1450. Although largely dependent on Vitruvius' De architectura, it was the first modern theoretical book on the subject and in 1485 became the first printed book on architecture.
Rationalism (architecture) - The intellectual principles of Rationalism are based on architectural theory. Vitruvius had already established in his work De Architectura that architecture is a science that can be comprehended rationally.
Periaktos - Periaktos (plural form Periaktoi, from Greek revolving) is a device used for displaying and rapidly changing theatre scenes. It has been first mentioned in Vitruvius' book on architecture, De architectura (ca.
Hermogenes of Priene - ... late 3rd - early 2nd century BCE), the Hellenistic architect of a temple of Artemis Leukophryene (Artemision) at Magnesia in Lydia, an Ionian colony on the banks of the Maeander river in Anatolia, has been sparked by references to his esthetic made by the first century Roman architect Vitruvius (De Architectura, books iii, 2 and 6).