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Known for the masterpieces of architect Andrea Palladio, Vicenza’s elegant villas, stunning views, and rich history make it ...
Worldwise: Roman Architect Achille Salvagni’s Favorite Things. From nine-figure homes to megayachts that are done up to the hilt, the Roman architect and designer Achille Salvagni is behind some ...
The rise and fall of Roman concrete. Standing 48 meters high, 156 meters wide, and 189 meters long, the Colosseum featured a complex system of arches, vaults, and an underground network called the ...
Gallic bio eyes Roman architect New York-born Gallic auteur Eugene Green is set to return behind the camera with "La Sapience," a film inspired by the life and work of daring 17th-century ...
In the 1960s, Luigi Moretti, the Roman architect who designed the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., remade Palazzo Ripetta, a 17th-century Catholic school for poor and orphaned girls, into a ...
In his treatise de Architectura (circa 30 CE), the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius wrote about how to build concrete walls for funerary structures that could endure for a long time without ...
A trio of scholars and scuba divers—classical archaeologists Robert L. Hohlfelder and John Oleson, and London-based architect Christopher Brandon—launched the Roman Maritime Concrete Study in ...