A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Columns and Concrete
Architecture from Nero to Hadrian
This chapter synthesizes recent scholarship to understand the dynamic interplay of structure, construction, and design and the corresponding nature of change in this period. Beginning with an examination of structural and constructional practices illustrates the emergence of a highly specialized building industry that both systematized existing practices and created the conditions for innovation. The chapter highlights fundamental design characteristics in this period, contextualizing them within the Roman architectural tradition. We find that the Roman penchant for blurring the distinction between artifice and reality achieves new heights, both on account of technical prowess and the use of architecture as an instrument of control in an increasingly autocratic imperial system. The focus then shifts to the design issue at the core of the revolution: how Roman architects fully realized concrete's structural properties, thus freeing concrete building from the structural constraints of the post‐and‐lintel building tradition.
Columns and Concrete
Architecture from Nero to Hadrian
This chapter synthesizes recent scholarship to understand the dynamic interplay of structure, construction, and design and the corresponding nature of change in this period. Beginning with an examination of structural and constructional practices illustrates the emergence of a highly specialized building industry that both systematized existing practices and created the conditions for innovation. The chapter highlights fundamental design characteristics in this period, contextualizing them within the Roman architectural tradition. We find that the Roman penchant for blurring the distinction between artifice and reality achieves new heights, both on account of technical prowess and the use of architecture as an instrument of control in an increasingly autocratic imperial system. The focus then shifts to the design issue at the core of the revolution: how Roman architects fully realized concrete's structural properties, thus freeing concrete building from the structural constraints of the post‐and‐lintel building tradition.
Columns and Concrete
Architecture from Nero to Hadrian
Ulrich, Roger B. (editor) / Quenemoen, Caroline K. (editor) / Quenemoen, Caroline K. (author)
2013-10-28
19 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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