The Impacts of the Roman Empire: Roman Architecture

Roman Architecture
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The impacts of the Roman empire are widely felt even to this day especially in the architectural designs that are traced to that era. The Roman architectural aspects and significance is in the same way very crucial in today’s architectural field as most architectural professionals still visit the Roman cities to view the remnants of the Roman architectural structures that are still in place to-date. This paper seeks to look at the significance that the Roman architecture has had on architectural practice over the ages and the aspects that the architectural designs carry about the cultural and societal practices that the designs are based. The Roman architecture is intensely revered due to the fact that it highly carries a lot of influence on even today’s architectural designs despite the much advancements that have been made technologically. The skills and creativity that the Roman architects showed even considering the fact that such utilities as electricity had not yet been invented at the time is something to give much credit to. This paper has delved much on comparing today’s architectural designs and that of the Roman era and even that of the Greek and the significance that this relationship has on the entire architectural field. The Roman architecture had much to do with displaying the cultural and societal aspects as well as portraying the splendor of the Roman Kingdom. This aspect receives much less attention in today’s design which is not that much into showing the cultural aspects of the society. The few Roman architectural monumental structures that still exist today are a clear picture of the skills that the Roman architects bore and a lot of today’s architecture has much to reference from the ancient architects.
Roman Architecture
There are some intriguing truths that are associated with the phrase that Rome was not build in a day. From an architectural point of view, there is an element that speaks to the time that most of the roman building that are still seen today, with close reference to the techniques that were used at the time. It is interesting to note that most of the architects will from time visit Rome. This is a relative to the fact that, there are historical significances that are associated with the construction techniques that were used at the time and they have a subtle impact on the current techniques.Over the years, the construction techniques have shifted around with some improvements and in some of the cases there have been some retrogressive developments. The most important aspect of the developments is that the changes in the techniques and the approaches that have been used over the years are a reflection of the society and values that they had at the time. Looking at the developments that architecture has had over the years, there are frames of reference that can be made to a certain culture at the time and the dominant approaches that were used at the time, along with the values that were held in the society. The roman empire is one of the most significant historical landmarks that have been used in reference to civilization. In the case of the construction techniques, there are some aspects that could...