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Roman architecture in Indy? You bet. Sit back and watch as you hear from experts in this arena, view stunning footage from Rome and Indianapolis, and along the way, get schooled in Roman Architecture.
There are two basic characteristics of Roman architecture that are really crucial; one is cement and one is the arch
and that's all you really need to know about Roman architecture because everything is based on that.
Concrete was discovered by the Romans, thanks to the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius. The volcanic ash that developed and deposited itself near Pompeii
created a material which the Romans realized when they put it into the water, could actually harden.
Opus caementicium, as it was called, was, in effect, the creation of a way to have structures built that didn't rest on each other the way a column might with an architrave on top of it.
If you take, say, the arch, an arch if you line them up you create a vault. If you draw it 180 degrees, you get an apse.
If you draw it 360 degrees, you get a dome.
Arches and vaults were made in this concrete and creating the opportunity, as time went on, to have enormous spans and huge domes and vaults.
All of these things that today we take for granted were inventions in the time of the Romans.
The gift of Vesuvius, you might say.
The reflection of Roman influence in Indianapolis is very deep.
If you take our State House, it could be the Temple of Concord with the dome on top.
Almost every government building in the United States is a direct rip-off of Roman architecture.
Indianapolis' Monument Circle is clearly derived from the columns of the Roman emperors.
The Column of Marcus Aurelius or the Column of Trajan, in Rome, are all celebrating military events.
The Roman forum was the center of everything.
It's almost a center of the civilization of ancient Rome unpacked in architecture and monuments that you can see and walk through time all the way back to the first century BC.
The Mall is a forum. The buildings around it have the same sort of Roman character. It was meant to be, sort of, a gathering place for the city.
Well, the Colosseum is a fascinating structure. Which, again, is really simply a combination of the arch and cement,
and it was designed, really, as a place for the Roman people to go and see spectacles of one kind or another,
and there really is no difference in the architecture of any football stadium in the country today from the Roman arena.
The whole western role is beholding to the inventions of Roman architecture and up until the 19th century, in terms of that kind of engineering, there really weren't very many advances beyond what the Romans have figured out in the first century BC.
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