Diocletian was the first Roman emperor who voluntarily retired from his position, citing declining health issues. After his retirement on May 1, AD, he went on to spend a quiet life in this majestic palace. The palace covers around feet meters from east to west and its walls are about 85 feet 26 meters high. At a time when the Roman civilization was in transition from the classical to the medieval era, architects were able to incorporate different building styles that had been used over the ages.
It also helped that Christians used the palace as a cathedral in the Middle Ages, preserving its structural integrity throughout the medieval period. When this famous amphitheater was built in the city of Nimes, the city was known by the name of Nemausus.
From around 20 BC, Augustus started to populate the city and give it a structure more akin to a typical Roman state. It had a number of splendid buildings, a surrounding wall, more than hectares of land, and a majestic theater at its heart. Better known as the Arena of Nimes, this astoundingly large theater had a seating capacity of around 24,, effectively making it one of the biggest amphitheaters in Gaul.
It was so large that during the Middle Ages, a small fortified palace was built within it. Later, somewhere around , the arena was remodeled into a huge bullring. It is still used to host annual bullfights to this day.
The Pantheon is arguably the most well-preserved architectural marvel from the ancient Roman era. Unlike many other contemporary Roman temples that were almost always dedicated to particular Roman deities, the Pantheon was a temple for all the Roman gods.
The construction of this temple was completed in AD during the rule of Hadrian. The Pantheon has a large circular portico that opens up to a rotunda. The rotunda is covered by a majestic dome that adds a whole new dimension to its grandeur.
The sheer size and scale of this dome is a lasting testimony to the skills of ancient Roman architects and engineers. When the famous amphitheater, the Colosseum, was built in ancient Rome, it had an area of by feet by meters , making it the largest amphitheater of its time. The construction of the Colosseum, the largest and most popular ancient Roman monument, began during the reign of Emperor Vespasian in 72 AD. By the time it was finished by his son Titus in 80 AD, a never-before-seen amphitheater with a seating capacity of over 50, was ready for use.
It could accommodate such large numbers of spectators that as many 80 different entrances were installed. It is said that its opening ceremony — the grandest of all spectacles — lasted for about days.
In that time, about 5, animals and 2, gladiators fought to their deaths in an unprecedented extravaganza of gladiatorial and bestiarius battles.
Toggle navigation. My shortlist 0 item. Enquire Review. Roman Architecture What is Roman Architecture? What was it famous for? How popular is it outside of Rome? History While borrowing much from the preceding Etruscan architecture, such as the use of hydraulics and the construction of arches, Roman prestige architecture remained firmly under the spell of Ancient Greek architecture and the classical orders. Corinthian Roman architecture The word "Corinthian" describes an ornate column style developed in ancient Greece and classified as one of the Classical Orders of Architecture.
Ionic Roman architecture The Ionic capital is characterized by the use of volutes. Apollodorus of Damascus After Vitruvius, there were many architects who helped Rome grow. Arch of Septimius Severus This monumental arch was constructed in AD in recognition of the unprecedented Roman victories over the Parthians in the dying years of the second century.
Temples of Baalbek A major attraction and a remarkable archaeological site in present-day Lebanon, Baalbek is considered as one of the most spectacular wonders of the ancient world. Library of Celsus Named after the famous former governor of the city of Ephesus, the Library of Celsus was actually a monumental tomb dedicated to Gaius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus.
Aqueduct of Segovia Located on the Iberian peninsula, the Aqueduct of Segovia still retains its structural integrity to this day, making it one of the best-preserved pieces of architecture from ancient Rome. Amphitheater, Nimes When this famous amphitheater was built in the city of Nimes, the city was known by the name of Nemausus.
Pantheon The Pantheon is arguably the most well-preserved architectural marvel from the ancient Roman era. Katharina Kocol and Olga Bialczak from Germany! It is a way for us to practice agile thinking, a chance to play, a way of developing a collective thinking and of connecting to a larger international architecture community. We always enter with the goal of winning. It is also an excellent opportunity to re-evaluate yourself and compare your ideas with architects from all over the world with a much larger variety of design strategies and ideas than you could ever find in a single university or work environment.
Daniel Brigginshaw from United Kingdom! The work produced in these competitions is a good way to explore new ideas in a public forum which may go on to inspire others in their own design work. Joseph Watkins from United Kingdom! For instance, Mandira has wanted to design and build a meditation cabin for a very long time.
A prospective client with a site, a program of requirements with room for change, and a deadline challenges her out of her comfort zone to do it. Mandira Sareen from United States! Nicholas Horvath from United States! Competitions are to architecture as peer review is to other fields; a competition can be a testing ground for design ideas before they are implemented. Andrii Koval and Olha Laktionova from Ukraine! In general, it is a good way to present your new ideas about the topical issues on architecture to a broader public.
They provide the freedom for testing alternative ideas. David Florez and Stefani Zlateva from Austria! It not only allows us to see other approaches to one single topic but also gives us a chance to work purely on our terms without any limit to creativity, which we find extremely stimulating as thriving architecture students.
A simple question posed to a room of creatives will bring an abundance of different responses, all correct in their own interpretation.
By truly including nature and society in the question, projects can only be improved. And we discovered, the sky is our limit. It has always been important to me to participate. I treat myself with a competition praline once in a while. It makes me happy! It is not just about to solve the task. Malin Persson from Sweden! Architectural design takes a long time. However, in the realm of competitions, our creative spirit can manifest much quicker.
The competition challenges us to test ideas and rethink convention. In most cases the topics are very interesting and most of the time there are no limits for your ideas and thoughts. So you can do nearly whatever you like and try the concept of your dreams. And of course because we like doing it. It is also a challenge to engage with a subject rarely encountered in everyday practice.
Likewise, we believe that being participants of this exchange of different points of view enriches the professional formation of those who dare to do so.
The matter was interesting so we thought we should give it a try. Additionally it was a great opportunity to practice the design process. Learning by doing, right? Jinsoo Kim and Dalya Ortak from Germany! Aleksandra Kubiak and Marta Buchner from Poland! This particular mindset challenges your ability to develop conceptual approaches and strengthen your ability to communicate your proposal. Florent Sauvineau from France! In our day-to-day practice, we miss having the freedom to have a complete control over the vision.
Competitions are a chance to show that we care about it and we want to show what our vision is. We also find it essential as a learning tool to look at how other architects face, and resolve the same problems. Brent Winburn and Lachlan Joseph from Australia! Vision competitions are the perfect place to test and build a conceptual model of organic design ideas that can influence research and real projects in future. With utopia as a connecting line, it allows us to develop a discourse which is not dependent on time, allowing us to discuss pure shapes and spaces.
Bastiaan Muilwijk and Paul Ouwerkerk from Netherlands! I love the freedom to push the boundaries of design and to explore futuristic concepts of form, space and technology. The majority of us will lose that vision when leaving school and entering the workforce, but these competitions allow us to rekindle why we wanted to be an architect in the first place.
Jon Carag from United States! This is a unique opportunity to question programmatic and contextual issues that are often complex. The variety of proposals put forward by the various candidates also allows them to see their own approach to the project in perspective, and learn from it.
Alessandro Pupillo from United States! It educates designers to deal with different ecological and social problems through architecture. It is a learning process of framing complications and devising good solutions. Experience from competitions help us grow as designers, in the words of Frank Lloyd Wright "talent is good, practice is better, passion is best. Shahrzad Nasiri and Ben Chang from Canada! We are always open for discussion and are ready to share our vision and experience with others.
This particular one provoked us to answer questions such as: what is a shelter nowadays? What is the minimal area for living? What does it mean to share a space with others? Architecture idea and vision competitions provide a unique opportunity to explore concepts between building and landscape in a more speculative context, and they can be a very effective way to allow younger architects and interns the chance to immediately impact the design process.
It is a way to pick a different architectural program or object, and try something you really wanted to do but you just never did before. Ana Rita Gomes from Portugal! We spend free time with a common passion, we do not only enjoy our time but also develop crucial skills like creative thinking. Weronika Kogut and Karolina Toporkiewicz from Poland! Competitions allow you to work freely. Christian Schunke and Anna Bugoslavska from Germany! A place where we can try our creativity and brains to put together a powerful concept.
A liberation of the constraints and time consuming day-to-day tasks. They offer possibility to challenge yourself, compete with others, familiarise yourself with different sites and communities, analyse other points of view on the same subject, while working together with your colleagues.
Also we like to have an area where we can express our interest in parametric design techniques. While daily practice is incredibly rewarding, competitions such as this offer a chance to exercise my mind and explore design problems that I might not otherwise have the opportunity to delve into.
They provide me the opportunity to research and explore a place and context that I may not otherwise have explored. I enjoy that. And I enjoy seeing other solutions to the same problem. Jeffrey Clancy from USA! To achieve this, each new project must be faced with accuracy, curiosity and the will to surprise and be surprised.
It is a possibility for young architects to find our positions and communicate through well-articulated projects. James Mak from United Kingdom! These competitions stress the importance of conceptual design and research that challenges the profession to create more dialogue. It's a journey through which we give our best, hopefully to contribute on the subject, and at the same time, it gives back to us. We improve ourselves, and we get even more motivated and passionate to prepare for the next journey.
I also firmly believe that each competition I have submitted to date somehow represents at least a step towards a learning curve, affecting my practice and teaching deeply. On another level, I do so in order to join conversations about what is possible through architecture and learn from the international architectural community.
Tien Chen from United States! Schools are training us for the professional world, so we will have a very certain theme and specific requirements which can be constraining sometimes. Competitions give me more freedom and control to think about architecture problems and it is fun. Zihao Wei from Canada! This can be both small design tasks, and large conceptual works, for example, the concept of territory development.
Participating in contests brings up such important qualities for the architect, such as the ability to quickly switch from one task to another and the ability to complete work on time. Gabdrakhmanova Ilsiyar from Russian Federation! It is an incredible chance to step away from conventional means of execution, and channel a different point of view to a broader audience. It facilitates the change in the profession through exposure and discussion, as well as one's professional growth. Competitions are the chance to take a pure functional or architectural thought and extrude, develop and test it in isolation from forces of the market place, community expectation and client requirements.
To exercise our creativity. To explore our creative identity in a space that is free of the constraints that we usually have to contend with. Competitions are where we have the freedom to implement what we believe without too many constraints. Besides, it give us the opportunities to expand our professional network and potential collaboration. Kevin Pham and Alex Hoang from Australia!
We appreciate the democratic nature of competitions and the platform it offers to express ourselves and make us better architects. Our designs are informed by research and the concerns of the context. However, we enjoy the flexibility vision competitions offer in flexing the creative muscle. When I had some freedom to design, but at the same time respecting certain parameters of design, i had the opportunity to design from the other side of the world for a place that has been recognized worldwide for having great potential in every field, and was the gateway to the new look of architecture.
Banny Fabian Sandoval Salinas from Chile! It gave us the opportunity to test the tools we have learned during our degrees in the real world without the restrictions of a university assignment.
These competitions are good exercises, to experiment but also to be aware of the reality of the demand. It's also a way to choose projects that really inspire us and develop a creative process with more liberty than your usual client.
We view these competitions as a way to improve ourselves and to widen our knowledge. It is also a great experience to work in a team and add to everyone's experience and background to the proposal. Julie Tse from New Zealand! Lanxin Zhong from China! We decided to do design competitions to allow the creative juices to flow and expose ourselves to a project that we would not find within our client base. Katarzyna Formela from Poland! William Maddinson from United Kingdom!
These competitions give us a site and context to visualise our ideas, put them to test and help us better understand the strengths and weaknesses of each iteration. We also use the competition format to test ideas, techniques, and various modes of representation - formal explorations, new software, image making and graphic representation. We understand competitions as a testing ground for new ideas and as a method to challenge preconceptions about our world. We decided to enter this competition in particular because the housing crisis is a very palpable, very complex issue.
Living in London and especially working in architecture, we see every day the tension the housing crisis causes in the city. It formed part of the collective research of the design unit I am studying with bartlettu13 and for somosaldea.
Robert Newcombe from United Kingdom! It gives opportunities to take another position and point of view which changes how we see things in a new way and boosts our creativity. But our motivation is not only intrinsic, at the same time we want to share our knowledge and our research by participating in vision competitions.
The answers given to this typology are unfortunately based on simplified assumptions, repeated standards and uninspired architecture. Medina Dzonlic and Daniel Andersson from Denmark! And vision competitions have exactly this kind of connotation. Moreover, it is also very important to confront what you are doing in your practice and research with what many other peers are doing. I wish I could have the opportunity to hear the voice from them, to receive all the comments and criticism from them, which is extremely essential to any architecture proposals.
We are building for people. Lianjie Wu from United Kingdom! A vision competition gives us the opportunity to embrace our creativity. Also, it is an opportunity to take over the challenge of dealing with a very unique site and brief. Joana Correia and Guillaume Boitier from France!
We believed it was a chance to create new culture by design for this project. Alex Kirschstein and Clemens Berresheim from Germany! And a good idea for the concept which came at the very beginning gave us the motivation to participate. It also enhances our knowledge in assimilating and learning the new culture and development.
Nathira Haja from Malaysia! Since I love nature, I try to pick competitions which allow me to show the impact of nature on architecture design and vice versa. I perceive such competitions as an important input in a professional career and a priceless contribution to my personal growth. Fernando Alonso Tuero from Spain! Moreover, we believe that it kick-starts our careers and gives us exposure in the design and architecture world. Seeing other entries for the same competition allows us also to learn and grow by seeing other points of views and solutions designed for the same project.
Alessia Falcini and Christelle Maalouf from Italy! Participating in such a competition helps us reflect on issues that are crucial in the broader context, yet something we typically do not encounter in our daily lives in the metropolis. Kahara Mori from Japan! Participation in competitions allows us to be involved in the new history of architecture and to be in the context of its development.
Jeffrey Clancy from United States! Guillem Roca Canals from Spain! Perhaps most importantly they offer a fun excuse to practice how we illustrate and explain our ideas — both graphically and verbally — which is critically important for the success of a small firm. I have chosen to participate because I felt the urge to extend the ideas and interests that were aroused from my studies. This specific competition was appealing to me because it combines my interests of architecture and music, in a country I love.
Robert Leslie Hillman from Australia! We feel that competitions allow us to think in new ways, examine our process and explore alternative means of graphic communication. We spent a lot of time prior to entering the competition arguing about everything under the moon. The competition was a way to take our two different personalities and see what cohesive idea could come out of it.
It was a great way to put arguments on paper. Competitions are an opportunity to step away from external demands and rediscover what is important to us. Ideally this resonates with others, and we see how others responded to the exact same parameters.
Cultural venues are a building typology that interests us deeply because of the clear connection between people, place, events history and identity. Dealing with such interesting topics has a very refreshing effect on the everyday-work and on our community as well. Of course we are also driven by the opportunity to realize our ideas, but a competition provides freedom, both in research, design development, detailing and presentation techniques.
It is also an interesting way to learn about the world. Through this project for example, I discovered an array of fascinating facts about Iceland and its history, whilst also learning about state of the art construction materials and building technologies. Madina Zhazylbekova from Kazakhstan! It helps to facilitate the change in the profession through exposure and discussion, as well as one's own professional growth.
I am sure that developing my imagination has improved the quality of my daily work in the office. We consider these opportunities unequalled chances to present our conversation with context as a pure manifestation as a designer could expect.
The challenge to be met is even bigger when you know that there are many young talents who participate. Moreover, it goes about a competition that enjoys great international visibility.
Beyond all this, the personal challenge is to excel while having fun. Francois Bodlet from Belgium! With this we concluded that every assignment, also within the profession, should be approached in this way. Keep a fresh mind on what architecture can mean or express. Marilu de Bies and Simon Wijrdeman from Netherlands! They test your understanding of various architectural challenges while at the same time offering you different narratives on different societies and places, and the impact design has on them.
The research process, collaboration and execution are a learning process. A fun one to be sincere. Joseph Mwaisaka from Kenya! Competition usually puts architects in a position of searching for questions before coming up with a solution.
These are interesting moments for experimenting. Besides everything else, it is a way to put in act new collaborations, like our team did. Guido Mitidieri and Venessa Mok from Finland!
They offer a good platform to experiment new ideas and explore different approaches to architecture. As a team, we learn so much from each other through one architectural design. They also motivate us to follow through on these pursuits through a financial investment and fixed schedule. It can be fascinating to observe how a place can be conceived by other architects and designers. Generally, we get to design things that we do not regularly have a chance to design — sometimes for places and users we do not get to think about.
It is a rewarding opportunity to face a challenge and develop new design perspectives as a result. Keremcan Kirilmaz and Erdem Batirbek from Turkey! This is the perfect venue for telling a story through architecture. Besides, we always want to work together in some challenging project.
Since everybody is now in Bangkok, so we knew this competition is a great chance for us to brainstorm and to do something stimulating. During the project, we deepened and furthered our idea. Of course, we faced many challenges, but finally overcome them. Yukang Yang and Jingwen Cui from China! It is finally a way to continue to express ourselves as young architects. It is a great way for us to be inventive and to be engaged in what is relevant in the discipline. Architecture vision competitions are known for being a great motivation to start brainstorming and conceptual thinking.
We are also defending our bachelor degree with this project as our final work, which is the initial reason and motive for us to participate in this competition. We had an explicit program set for us, thus, it was easier to handle the work process, having a clear task and a rigorous goal to achieve. Valdone Mitkeviciute and Greta Prialgauskaite from Lithuania! It allows you to experiment, to test your ideas and to refine them. It is the occasion to take a rough idea and to perfect it in an analogical context with the reality.
And also for the liberty of expression of this idea, without any constraints. It is a great challenge where future and young architects like us can practice to work independently, while having the pleasure to choose projects that really inspire them. These conditions generate an occasion to bring out the best results of young designers while enjoying the creative process as well. For a small team from a small developing country like ours, it is very difficult to reach out to a larger audience by any other means.
Participation in competitions allows us to be involved in the new history of architecture, be in the context, and keep up with its development. We do this to sharpen our minds and to meet people who want to work with us on exciting projects. Hans Maarten Wikkerink from United States! Seth McDowel l from United States! It is the opportunity to create without seeing the competitors who are also enormously empowered which then you overcome and become stronger by yourself.
Too often, standardized practices or routines blind us from potential inquiries. While it is not helpful to re-invent the wheel, I find that architecture vision competitions to be a necessary freedom from this daily reality. In that freedom, it is truly possible to consider anything, and these unbiased visions I feel are essential in realizing our potential. Ryan Anthony Ball from United States!
I cannot think of a better way of learning, discovering new perspectives and ways of thinking a reality. Furthermore, they are one of the best incentives to test ourselves and improve. In addition, I personally took part in this competition because I found that the possibility of getting an internship in North America is worth the effort. Liyang Chen and Yao Zheng from China! Their informal nature allows us to experiment with the way we design, work and collaborate.
They also provide a platform to broadcast our ideas to a bigger audience. Deyan Saev and Panayiotis Hadjisergis from Netherlands! Basically, to keep on learning. Paolo Zurk from Colombia! Participating in an architecture vision competition is a good exercise to develop new skills, design processes and learn of the problems around the world. Alessandro Carrea and Djavan Cardona from Switzerland! We believe this might be a combination that can lead to an interesting project. Jacopo Abbate and Martina Mitrovic from Italy!
Above all it challenges us and in doing so it forces us to evolve. Morgan Baufils from France! It can also provoque a dialog without imposing a constructed reality. A competition is only the first step. It allows architects to dream big and to spread their ideas to a global audience. The social sphere of the competitions encourages the intermingling of ideas across the world. Eveline Lam and Dave Holborn from Canada!
It is a way to express our commitment to humanistic ideas and an active professional attitude to architecture. This attitude gives guidelines for design of rational structures and sensible spaces throughout free search and common sense. The contests allows you to investigate and address different issues, putting you constantly in a challenge. It is a processing project tool. It is a way to implement your project capacity, thanks to a constant confrontation with other project outcomes. Gino Baldi and Serena Comi from Italy!
It's part of trying to understand and develop what techniques and sensibilities work for us, and to develop our design identity. For us, these kinds of competitions create a space for that kind of exploration. Almost always the start of a journey is better than the return. To develop an idea and take it though until the end without losing it during the trip, is very easy in this type of competition and it attracts us especially. In this case we participate because the opportunity represents a taboo subject for society, policy and the law; addressing this taboo subject with the tool of architectural.
By participating in these competitions, we can stay in tune with world events and maintain our high design enthusiasm level. I think that modern construction developments reflect the creative possibilities of people.
So for me, being a young architect, architecture is also a challenge. Often in our daily jobs we find our ways toward paths of increasing specialization. Competitions are a way to explore the breadth of the field.
Especially in regard to teaching, I feel it is important to continue to push yourself and think critically, and the architectural competition is a framework to do that. We don't really ever stop. It's important for us to continue learning, with every competition or project, we always aim to develop our skills in something we have never done, or even with a new software have never used. Competitions help us to know ourselves better. How to emphasis the importance of freedom of speech?
Should the pavilion be light or heavy? Therefore, the interests and challenges are the wave that pushes us ahead. We love how the boundaries of ideas can be pushed by the collective, beyond any limits that we could individually have conceived. Federico Malnati and Thomas Giuliani from Switzerland! It offers the unique chance to use architecture to uncover the potential of a site and program. Competitions allow us to escape from the ordinary settings and imagine something extraordinary.
Also, the freedom to pursue my own ideas. This project was a first for me in that I had literally zero outside input. No professors, friends or colleagues bounce ideas off of was interesting to say the least. Cameron Kollath from United States! We also use them to help hone our drawing and communication skills; this is important when teaching our students. The Architecture Vision organisation sets provocative and engaging briefs that are interesting to undertake.
Nima Nian and Behdad Heydari from Iran! Yu Sun and Xue Zhao from China! You can learn from people of different specialties about topics that apparently seem distant and unattainable. The Triangle is one of the most solid geometrical shapes. But it points out also the weakest areas in hitting, locking, stances, moving and so on. The applied force, material, bar size, and display settings are the same in each image.
As you can see, the arc is worst off, the arch better and the triangle is the best. The largest surviving example of the triumphal arch is the Arch of Constantine , built in Rome in c. One of the most famous arches in the world is in Paris, France. A Roman gladiator was an ancient professional fighter who usually specialised with particular weapons and types of armour.
They fought before the public in hugely popular organised games held in large purpose-built arenas throughout the Roman Empire from BCE to CE official contests.
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