Roman Spatial Practices Republican period in Rome: 509-27 B.C.
Feb 24, 2016
Roman Spatial PracticesRepublican period in Rome: 509-27 B.C.
Republican period: 509-27 B.C. Imperial period: 27 B.C. – A.D. 476
Emperor Augustus
Two major periods of Roman history
Citizen Aulus Mettelus
Etruscan temple
Etruscan city gate
Major Italic peoples and others on the Italian peninsula in the 6th century B.C.
Latins soon to be the Romans
I. Roman Spatial Dominion: shaping space to encourage consensus
Roman republic: consensus building
Greek democracy: individualism
The Roman Forum, Rome, Italy, 1st cen. BC
I.
I. The Forum in Rome (an unplanned city)
The Roman Forum, Rome, Italy, 1st cen. BC
I. A. Why was the Roman Forum located where it is?
Roman Forum Capitoline Hill with the major Temple
Palatine Hill
The Roman Forum, Rome, Italy, 1st cen. BC (Republican era)
I. B. Find the typical buildings on the republican Roman Forum in Rome
Capitoline: Temple of Capitoline Jupiter
Basilica Julia Basilica AemiliaComitium and Senate house
Temple of Castor and
Pollux
Temple of the Vestal Virgins
The Roman Forum in Rome
I. B. Find the typical buildings on the republican Roman Forum in Rome
Republic - 1st cen. BC Empire - 1st cen. AD
I. B.
Roman Forum in Rome (Republican with early Imperial additions)
Roman Forum in Rome (Republican) Forum in Pompeii (Republican)
II. C. In spite of the fact that Rome was an unplanned city, what Roman planning principles are present in the space of the Roman Forum?
II. Roman Urbanism: Shaping space to foster consensus in a Roman planned city
Timgad, Algeria, 1st cen A.D.
founded by emperor Trajan, pop. 10,000-15,000
II.
Roman “Thaumgadi”
Florentia, Italy (republican period)
II.
Timgad, Algeria (imperial period)
II. A. How do the following characteristics demonstrate Roman interest in spatial hierarchy and controlled space?
Roman Timgad, AlgeriaGreek Priene, Turkey (Hippodamian plan)
II. A. 1. City walls and orientation?
Roman Timgad, AlgeriaGreek Priene, Turkey (Hippodamian plan)
✔ Roman: clear quadrangular periphery set off from the surrounding landscape(Shaping space to foster consensus)
I. A. 1.
Timgad, Algeria
✔ Roman: monumental gates in the original city walls mark the ends of the major avenues
I. A. 2. Major axes (cardo and decumanus)
Timgad, Algeria
(Shaping space to foster consensus)
I. A. 2.
Timgad, Algeria Roman Palmyra, Syria
(Shaping space to foster consensus) ✔ core circuitry of cities ✔ the ordinary within monumentality
Timgad, AlergiaOlynthos, Greece
I. A. 3. Location of the forum in the city plan and its spatial integrity/isolation within the city.
agora
forum
The Forum in Timgad, Algeria
I. A. 1.
✔ Crystallization of spatial units within distinct borders
(Shaping space to foster consensus)