Roman Builders
A Study in Architectural Process
by Rabun Taylor
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Rabun Taylor describes how the architectural ideas behind great Roman building projects were carried into practice. He uses the Baths of Caracalla, the Pantheon, the Colosseum & the great temples of Baalbek as physical documents for their own building histories.
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Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process
January 27, 2003, Cambridge University Press
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Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process
January 27, 2003, Cambridge University Press
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"In 1586 Domenico Fontana oversaw one of the greatest spectacles in the history of building, the moving of a monolithic Egyptian obelisk from its nearby site in the Vatican, where it had been placed by the Roman emperor Caligula, to its modern position in the Piazza San Pietro."
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Includes 150 Illustration, Notes (organized by chapter) and Bibliography
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