Sponsored by Archaelogical Institute of America, Rochester
Society AIA Society Event: Rochester Saturday, October 20, 2012
- 11:00am - 11:35am Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 11:00am -
3:00pm Rochester Museum & Science Center 657 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607 Lecture by Professor Renato Perucchio,
University of Rochester (11:00 a.m., Bausch Auditorium at the
RMSC, approx 35 minutes) ABSTRACT - During the course of Roman
civilization, and especially during the Empire, Roman engineers
developed the structural form -- that is the combination of
geometrical shapes and structural materials designed to carry
loads in buildings -- to levels of innovation unparalleled until
the introduction of structural steel and reinforced concrete in
the nineteenth century. Breaking away from the Etruscan and
Hellenistic building traditions, Roman engineers used
ingeniously the arch and the truss together with structural
timber, masonry and pozzolanic concrete (opus caementicium) to
generate a sequence of structural solutions that