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Roman Architecture in Britain
The ideal Roman city plan was based on a regular grid of streets, dividing up square building plots or insulae . In the central insula was the forum, or market square – with a basilica, or great hall, running the length of one side of the square, and the council chamber and civic offices adjoining it. In forts like Chesters and Housesteads on Hadrian’s Wall, the central headquarters building was a small-scale version of the civic forum-basilica. Here, soldiers collected or banked their pay, the administration of the unit was carried out, and the…
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Based at University College London, the school has now headed the newspaper’s league for three years in a row. Last month the Bartlett also came top of this year’s AJ100 poll of the best architecture school. The University of Greenwich props up the bottom of the league, despite attracting a number of Bartlett staff back in 2011 including its ex-professor and vice dean Neil Spiller. The top ten list remains largely the same as last year, with just two schools, Liverpool and Northumbria, dropping out, to be replaced by Oxford Brookes and Manchester…
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The undergraduate program The Honours Bachelor of Architectural Studies degree provides the foundation of skills, knowledge, judgment and practical experience required for subsequent professional studies in architecture. Though the Academic Program is pre-professional, it is fully dedicated to imparting to students the culture and practice of design. Design is a synthetic activity. To do it well and serve the needs of the individual and society requires an extremely broad education. Students acquire an understanding of the workings of society and…
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