Pompeii

Pompeii

Lawrence Technological University

January 24, 2016

Aluzzo, Adrienne (photograph)

Single Built Works

2006

Italy (nation)

Pompeii (deserted settlement)

Imperial (Roman)

villas

columns (architectural elements)

View of unidentified villa at Pompeii, Italy with rows of columns in foreground. "The layout of the city from the geometric regularity was basically derived by the architect and urban planner greek Hippodamus of Miletus. But the plan of Pompeii does not conform to the strict provision right angles, and the blocks have constant dimensions that distinguished, in general, works of Hippodamus. However, despite the lack of robustness, Pompeii is the first example of systematic planning in Italy. Architects, designers and builders had their happiest moment in the time of Nero, as a result of the earthquake in 62 AD In fact, during the last seventeen years of the life of the city they were called, not only to expand the area of Pompeii, but also to rebuild the many buildings that the earthquake had destroyed or damaged,"Pompeii Online.

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