Markets of Trajan

Markets of Trajan

100 to 112

1363

Apollodoros of Damascus

Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)

Roman

Single Built Works

Italy (nation)

Rome (inhabited place)

Imperial (Roman)

marketplaces

arcades (structural assemblies)

Trajan--Emperor of Rome--53-117

View 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,"--by Trachtenberg and Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism./ The Western Tradition, p. 145.

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