With an vast understanding of loads and the desire to construct impressive architecture buildings the romans have long been regarded as some of the greatest architects in the ancient world. Some of the notable architecture elements that were developed by the romans were the barrel vaults, cross vaults, domes and semidomes. In this essay, their knowledge on these important elements is further analyzed and explained. Furthermore, this essay discusses the problems romans had when constructing monolithic structures and how they overcame these challenges.
