HISTORY OF ROMAN ARCHITECTURE

Roman Architecture covers the period from the establishment of Roman Republic in 509 BC to about 4th century AD, after which it became  reclassified as Late Antique or Byzantine Architecture. Most of many surviving examples are from the later period. Roman architecture style continued to influence buildings in the former empire for many centuries, and the style used in Western Europe beginning about 1000 is called Romanesque Architecture to reflect this dependence on basic Roman forms.

THE COLOSSEUM IN ROME, ITALY.

Factors such as wealth and high population densities in cities forced the ancient Romans to discover new architectural solutions of their own.Examples include the aqueducts of Rome, the Baths of Diocletian and the Baths of Caracalla, the basilicas and Colosseum.

The Roman Architectural Revolution, also known as the Concrete Revolution, was the widespread use in Roman architecture of the previously little-used architectural forms of the arch, vault, and dome. For the first time in history, their potential was fully exploited in the construction of a wide range of civil engineering structures, public buildings, and military facilities. These included amphitheatres, aqueducts, baths, bridges, circuses, dams, domes,harbours, and temples.