1. A Roman Apartment Complex.
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Watts, Donald J. and Watts, Carol Martin
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APARTMENT buildings , *ARCHITECTURE ,OSTIA (Extinct city) - Abstract
Describes the architecture of the Roman apartment complex called the Garden Houses of Ostia which is located near the Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome, Italy. Similarity of the complex to modern structures; Demonstration of a palpable sense of order and design; Detection of single geometric pattern that recurs at all scales from the overall configuration of the buildings.
- Published
- 1986
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