Text from an article
on "Palaces, villas
and houses" in The
World Atlas of
Architecture (1984,
G.K. Hall
ISBN: 0816187169)
overlain with a mosaic
from the House of the
Faun in Pompeii.
"It was a challenge to
take a purely pragmatic,
dry text about Roman
architecture, and reveal
the terse poetry buried
within it," says Collier
