Markets of Trajan

Markets of Trajan

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Apollodoros of Damascus

Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)

Roman

Single Built Works

Italy (nation)

Rome (inhabited place)

Imperial (Roman)

arcades (structural assemblies)

marketplaces

Trajan--Emperor of Rome--53-117

barrel vaults

View of vaulted ceilings inside an arcade at the Markets of Trajan in Rome, Italy. "The basic unit of the still-well-preserved Markets of Trajan was the standard Roman all-purpose taberna: a barrel-vaulted cubicle, with a large opening to the street and sometimes a mezzanine lit by a small window. The markets are the finest-known example of modular commercial construction in concrete. The flexibility of the taberna unit in size, shape, and proportion permitted Apollodorus to devise a supple scheme arrayed in five levels up to the slopes of the Quirinal Hill, above the monumental parts of the forum. . . . The Markets and Forum of Trajan are superb representatives of the two sides of Roman architecture -- the utilitarian and the monumental -- at their height in the early second century A.D.,"--Trachtenberg and Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism./ The Western Tradition, p. 145.

concrete

brick (clay product)

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