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TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE
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INTERIOR OF THE PANTHEON, A.D. 120
Roman order was simple and direct. If it was brutal, so much the worse—or so much the better.
They had enormous desires for domination and organization. Old Rome as regards architecture had nothing to show, the city walls were too crowded, the houses were piled up ten storeys high—the sky-scraper of the ancients. The Forum must have been ugly, a little like the bric-a-brac of the sacred city of Delphi. Town planning, a large lay-out! There was none of this.
Pompeii must be seen, appealing in its rectangular plan. They had conquered Greece and, like good barbarians, they found the Corinthian order more beautiful than the Doric,
