Publisher's Synopsis
The first English handbook on Roman architecture to appear since A. Boëthius and J.B. Ward Perkins's 1970 standard work, Roman Architecture offers an in-depth examination of the topic from the Archaic to Late Antique periods and throughout the Roman Empire. Its 25 chapters, organized thematically and by broad functional categories, serve as a manual to the key monuments as well as to current methodologies and discourses in research.