HISTORY OF ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
COLLOSEUM No.2
: Colosseum; Italy, Rome; 72 A.D.
- Arches make strong lights and shadows. This is the main motief of Greek and Roman Arcitecture.
Lights give lives and architecture robs a energy of lights.
- The Oval planning, which is prebalent in Japan recentry, bring back you to variable world. It has achived the roots of kinetic world of "Barroque" at the Roma Period.
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photo:SHOJI HIRAMATSU
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