Text Box: ROMAN ARCHITECTURE INTRODUCED CURVED FORM THROUGH ARCH AND VAULT; PRODUCED A SEMICULAR SPACE FOR TERMINATING AN AXIS. CYLINDRICAL AND SPHERICAL SPACES BECAME ELEMENTS OF DESIGN; AND AS A SUPPORT AND FOR DECORATION. THE MAIN TWO FIRST STRUCTURE TO CARRY ARCHES ARE BRIDGE AND AQUEDUCTS. AND LATER ON VAULTS CAME INTO PRACTIC, WHICH ARE ARCHED ROOFS.  Text Box: CITIZENS OF REGIONS CONQUERED BY ROME WERE THE BENEFICIARIES OF ROMAN INNOVATIONS SUCH AS FRESH WATER SUPPLY, BRIDGES OVER PREVIOUSLY IMPASSABLE RIVERS, ROAD LINKING ALL PARTS OF THE EMPIRER ESPECIALLY TO THE CAPITAL AND INCREDIBLE PUBLIC BUILDINGS LIKE THE FORUMS AND BATHS.

 

Text Box: THE ASTONISHING AND BEAUTY OF ROMAN ARCHITECTURE HAS NOT BEEN LAST SINCE IT WAS BUILT. EVERY PIECE OF ROMAN ARCHITECUTRE WAS AN ART OF SHAPING SPACE AROUND RITUAL. THERE ARE NO NATIONS WHICH CAN COMPARE WITH ROMANS ARCHITECTURE, BECAUSE THE ROMANS APPLIED ARCHITECTURE TO SO MANY PURPOSES AND IT IS UNDENIABLED OF THEIR SUPERIOR ENGINEERING SKILLS AND ARCHITECTURAL IDEAS IN THAT PERIOD OF TIME.   Text Box: ROMAN ARCHITECTURE…VS…TODAY’S ARCHITECTURE

Text Box: ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES IN THE AGE OF HUMANISM "Without symmetry and proportion there can be no principles in the design of any temple; that is, if there is no precise relation between its members, as in the case of those of a well shaped man."                                 (De architectura,, Vitruvius) THE DESIRABILITY OF USING THE SYSTEMS OF PROPOTION WAS LATER ON PRACTICED INTO ARCHITECTURE.                                                 A system based on the musical ratios, used by Alberti and Palladio, which we'll cover in our unit on Renaissance architecture.                    A system based on the golden ratio, such as Le Corbusier's Modulor, which we'll look at in our unit on twentieth century architecture.         A system based on the square, apparently used by the Romans, the subject of this unit.

ROMAN ARCHITECTURE

 

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