Architecture Archive
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Augustus and the Architecture of Masculinity
Posted on October 7, 2012 | No CommentsMany previous studies have been completed on ancient Rome, including studies on Augustus, gender issues, and the Roman games, which have helped create a timeline of Augustus?s rise to power, an architectural layout of the Circus Maximus and a social hierarchy based on gender. -
The Pantheon: Crown Jewel of Roman Concrete
Posted on October 4, 2012 | No CommentsLet me lead you through the parts of this building, in the hope that you, too, will appreciate its ingenious technology and the people that made it. -
The builders of Roman Ostia: Organisation, status and society
Posted on October 3, 2012 | No CommentsDirect documentary evidence for the organisation of the ancient Roman construction industry, and for the social and economic status of builders and their place in society, is very limited compared with what is available for the Renaissance and later periods. -
Hatshepsut: A Female King of Egypt and her Architecture
Posted on September 25, 2012 | No CommentsThere is nothing quite like it in architecture in its design, siting and effect. Egyptian kings in the New Kingdom period sought an enduring monument of temple architecture to communicate to posterity their importance and power. -
The Parthenon Frieze: Viewed as the Panathenaic Festival Preceding the Battle of Marathon
Posted on September 23, 2012 | No CommentsThe Parthenon frieze has been the subject of many debates and the interpretation of it leads to a number of problems: what was the subject of the frieze? What would the frieze have meant to the Athenian audience? -
Huge Roman mosaic discovered in Turkey
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Reconstructing Pompeian Households
Posted on September 16, 2012 | No CommentsThe study of Pompeian households has until recently been dominated by analyses of architectural patterns and wall paintings, as these are easily available for study. -
Amphitheatres of Roman Britain: a study of their classes, architecture and uses
Posted on September 16, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis is a study of the classes, architecture and uses of Romano-British amphitheatres. -
Glass in the Roman Empire: History, Technology, and Typology
Posted on August 24, 2012 | No CommentsThe Hellenistic society seems to have given less emphasis to glass than metal ware and pottery, but it still provided enough support to allow continuation of the trade on a smaller scale. -
The Greek Achievement: The Birth of Classicism
Posted on August 22, 2012 | No CommentsThis article is based on a lecture delivered at the The Greeks Institute, a series of lectures presented to secondary school teachers in the Bridgeport Public Schools during the spring of 1989. Co-sponsored by the Connecticut Humanities Council, Sacred Heart University, and the Bridgeport Public Schools, the purpose of the institute has been to provide teachers with an interdisciplinary exploration of classical Greece for the purposes of professional enrichment and curriculum development.
