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A companion to Roman architecture /

"A Companion to Roman Architecture presents a comprehensive review of the critical issues and approaches that have transformed scholarly understanding in recent decades in one easy-to-reference volume. Offers a cross-disciplinary approach to Roman architecture, spanning technology, history, art...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:	Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores:	Ulrich, Roger Bradley (Editor ), Quenemoen, Caroline K. (Editor )
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley Blackwell, 2013.
Colección:	Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history.
Temas:	Architecture, Roman. Architecture romaine. LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical. Architecture, Roman Architektur Römisches Reich Rome.
Acceso en línea:	Texto completo

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A Companion to Roman Architecture
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Contributors
Maps/General Images
Introduction
1 Italic Architecture of the Earlier First Millennium BCE
Introduction
1. Early Domestic Architecture
2. Civic Architecture
3. Defensive Architecture
4. Sacred Architecture
5. Conclusions
Guide to Further Reading
2 Rome and Her Neighbors: Greek Building Practices in Republican Rome
Introduction
1. The Rise of Individualism
2. Engaging in a Hellenistic Koine : The Effects of Greek Conquest
3. 146 BCE and After: The Age of Hermodorus
4. The Slow Triumph of Monarchism
Guide to Further Reading
3 Creating Imperial Architecture
Introduction
1. Functions Served by the New Architecture
2. Religious Functions: Public Cults and Imperial Cults
3. The Domus Augusti and Augustus ' s Buildings on the Campus Martius
4. Entertainment
5. Hygiene, Sport, and Education
6. Conclusion: From Hellenistic and Italic Architecture to Roman Imperial Architecture
Guide to Further Reading
4 Columns and Concrete: Architecture from Nero to Hadrian
Introduction
1. Structure and Construction
2. Artifice and Reality
3. Designing in Section
4. Columns and Concrete
5. Conclusion
Guide to Further Reading
5 The Severan Period
Introduction
1. Rome and Ostia
2. Eastern and Western Provinces
3. Architectural Ornament and the "Marble Style"
4. Changing Relations between East and West
Guide to Further Reading
6 The Architecture of Tetrarchy
Introduction
1. Rome and Romans outside Rome
2. Rome away from Rome: New Imperial Cities
3. "The Emperor Builds for his People": Baths and Circuses
4. Imperial Palaces and Political Communication
5. Palace Architecture
6. Imperial Tombs outside Rome
7. A Retirement Palace.
8. An Imperial Villa for a Military Emperor
9. The Tetrarchic Paradigm and Rome
10. Epilogue: Constantine and the TetrarchicTradition
Guide to Further Reading
7 Architect and Patron
Introduction
Guide to Further Reading
8 Plans, Measurement Systems, and Surveying: The Roman Technology of Pre-Building
Introduction
1. Models and Plans
2. Scale Planning and the Shape of Order
3. Measure and Commensuration
4. The Shaping of Ordered Space
Guide to Further Reading
9 Materials and Techniques
Introduction
1. Geography and Chronology: The Environment of Rome and Italy
2. The Development of Materials in Central Italy
3. Materials by Type: Timber
4. Materials by Type: Brick and Tile
5. Materials by Type: Stone and Marble
6. Materials by Type: Mortar and Concrete
7. Materials by Type: Stucco
8. Materials by Type: Metal
9. Materials by Type: Glass
10. Selecting the Right Material
11. Foundations, Footings, and Substructures
12. Floors: Contignatio and Suspensurae
13. Walls
Special Techniques
14. Spanning Spaces: Trabeated Architecture
15. Spanning Spaces: Arches and Vaulting
16. Integration of Diverse Materials and Structural Components
17. Building Techniques Characteristic of the Roman Provinces: Greece and Asia Minor
18. Building Techniques Characteristic of the Roman Provinces: Egypt
19. Building Techniques Characteristic of the Roman Provinces: North Africa
20. Building Techniques Characteristic of the Roman Provinces: Europe and Britain
21. Summary: Roman Contributions
Guide to Further Reading
10 Labor Force and Execution
Introduction
1. Off-Site Labor
1.1. Bricks and roof tiles
1.2. Prestige marbles
2. On-Site Labor
2.1. Military building
3. Process
3.1. Modeling construction projects
Guide to Further Reading.
11 Urban Sanctuaries: The Early Republic to Augustus
Introduction
1. The Temple of Capitoline Jupiter and Its Influence
2. Hellenistic Influences in the Second Century BCE: The Ionic Order
3. Hellenistic Influences in the First Century BCE: The Corinthian Order
4. The Temple and Forum in First-Century-BCE Rome
5. Urban Sanctuaries in the Time of Augustus
Guide to Further Reading
12 Monumental Architecture of Non-Urban Cult Places in Roman Italy
Introduction
1. From Sacred Natural Places to Monumentality
2. Monumental Building between Global and Local
3. The Relationship between Cult Place and Community
4. Latium: The Sanctuary of Hercules Victor at Tibur
5. Samnium: The Sanctuaries of Pietrabbondante and S. Giovanni in Galdo, Colle Rimontato
6. Lucania: The Sanctuaries of Serra Lustrante d'Armento and Rossano di Vaglio
7. Conclusion
Guide to Further Reading
13 Fora
Introduction
1. The Forum as Considered by Vitruvius
2. The Development of the Western Forum
3. The Forum Romanum as Symbolic Space
4. Forum Plazas in the West: Case Studies of Architectural Experience
Guide to Further Reading
14 Funerary Cult and Architecture
Introduction
1. A Landscape of Tombs
2. Funerary Cult
3. Why Build a Tomb?
4. The Necropolis of Isola Sacra
Guide to Further Reading
15 Building for an Audience: The Architecture of Roman Spectacle
Introduction: Forms of Entertainment Buildings
1. Locating Spectacle: The Structure and Context of Venues
2. Designing for an Audience: Structure, Materials, and Amenities
3. Entertaining the Roman World: Hierarchy, Patronage, and Display
Guide to Further Reading
16 Roman Imperial Baths and Thermae
Introduction
1. Thermae and Balneae
2. Popularity and Importance of Bathing.
3. The Nature and Planning of Balnea and Thermae
4. Water Needs of Thermae
5. Administration and Services of Thermae
6. Thermae as Educational and Intellectual Institutions
7. High Costs of Building the Thermae
8. Thermae of Rome
8.1. Thermae of Agrippa and the Thermae of Nero
8.2. Thermae of Trajan
8.3. Thermae of Caracalla and the Thermae of Diocletian
9. Display of Art in Thermae
10. Thermae in North Africa
10.1. Hadrianic Baths, Lepcis Magna
10.2. Antonine Thermae, Carthage
11. Bath-Gymnasia in Asia Minor
11.1. Harbor Bath-Gymnasium, Ephesus
11.2. Vedius Bath-Gymnasium, Ephesus and Imperial Bath-Gymnasium, Sardis
11.3. Baths and Thermae of Constantinople
12. Baths and Thermae in Antioch and Roman Syria
13. Baths and Thermae in Late Antique and Christian Worlds
Guide to Further Reading
17 Courtyard Architecture in the Insulae of Ostia Antica
Introduction
1. Representative Examples
1.1. Caseggiato dei Triclini (Ostia I, XII, 1, original construction ca. 120 CE)
1.2. Horrea Epagathiana (I, VIII, 3, 137-138 CE
Figure 17.4)
2. Distribution of Insulae by Time and Place
3. Notes on the Origin of the Insula with a Cortile Porticato
Guide to Further Reading
18 Domus/Single Family House
Introduction
1. Form and Function in the Traditional Domus (ca. 300-150 BC)
1.1. Evidence from Pompeii
2. Form and Function in the Domus -with- Peristyle (ca. 150 BC -350 CE)
2.1. Post-Pompeian versions of the domus
3. Systems of Decoration
Guide to Further Reading
19 Private Villas: Italy and the Provinces
Introduction
1. What is a Roman Villa?
2. Designing the Villa
Guide to Further Reading
20 Romanization
Introduction: Interpreting Cultural Change and Material Culture
1. The Evidence: Potentials and Problems.
2. The Development of Roman Architecture in the Western Provinces
3. Regionality in Provincial Architecture
4. A Different Approach to Provincial Architecture
5. Conclusions
Guide to Further Reading
21 Streets and Facades
Introduction
1. The Layout of Streets
2. The Surface and the Width of Streets
3. Facades of Buildings and Streets
4. Crossroads, Street Furniture, and Signage
5. The Monument and the Street
6. Changing Streets or the Architecture of Movement in the Roman City
Guide to Further Reading
22 Vitruvius and his Influence
Guide to Further Reading
23 Ideological Applications: Roman Architecture and Fascist Romanità
Introduction
1. Forging a Fascist Style: The Theoretical Debate
2. Il Stile Littorio in Practice: The Via dell' Impero 1931-1938
3. Conclusions
Guide to Further Reading
24 Visualizing Architecture Then and Now: Mimesis and the Capitoline Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus
Introduction: Theorizing Architectural Representation
1. Analyzing Ancient Images of Temple Facades
2. Debating Plans
3. Reconstructing Urban Contexts
4. Visualizing Possibilities
Guide to Further Reading
25 Conservation
Introduction
1. The Aesthetics of Roman Architectural Conservation
2. Time, Fidelity, and Identity
3. Conclusion
Guide to Further Reading
Glossary
References
Index.

A companion to Roman architecture /

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