Editing Ancient Roman architecture (section)

== Influence on later architecture ==
Roman architecture supplied the basic vocabulary of [[Pre-Romanesque]] and [[Romanesque architecture]], and spread across Christian Europe well beyond the old frontiers of the empire, to Ireland and [[Scandinavia]] for example. In the East, [[Byzantine architecture]] developed new styles of churches, but most other buildings remained very close to Late Roman forms. The same can be said in turn of [[Islamic architecture]], where Roman forms long continued, especially in private buildings such as houses and the [[Hammam|bathhouse]], and civil engineering such as fortifications and bridges.

In Europe the [[Italian Renaissance]] saw a conscious revival of correct classical styles, initially purely based on Roman examples.<ref>Summerson, 13, 22–23, 40–44</ref> [[Vitruvius]] was respectfully reinterpreted by a series of architectural writers, and the [[Tuscan order|Tuscan]] and [[Composite order]]s formalized for the first time, to give [[The Five Orders of Architecture|five rather than three]] orders.<ref>Summerson, 10–13,</ref> After the flamboyance of [[Baroque architecture]], the [[Neoclassical architecture]] of the 18th century revived purer versions of classical style, and for the first time added [[Greek Revival architecture|direct influence]] from the Greek world.
[[File:VillaCornaro 2007 07 14 front 1.jpg|thumb|[[Villa Cornaro]], designed by [[Andrea Palladio]] in 1552]]
Numerous local classical styles developed, such as [[Palladian architecture]], [[Georgian architecture]] and [[Regency architecture]] in the English-speaking world, [[Federal architecture]] in the United States, and later [[Stripped Classicism]] and [[PWA Moderne]].

Roman influences may be found around us today, in banks, government buildings, great houses, and even small houses, perhaps in the form of a porch with Doric columns and a [[pediment]] or in a fireplace or a [[mosaic]] shower floor derived from a Roman original, often from [[Pompeii]] or [[Herculaneum]]. The mighty pillars, domes and arches of Rome echo in the [[New World]] too, where in Washington, D.C. stand the [[United States Capitol|Capitol building]], the [[White House]], the [[Lincoln Memorial]], and other government buildings. All across the US the seats of regional government were normally built in the grand traditions of Rome, with vast flights of stone steps sweeping up to towering pillared porticoes, with huge domes gilded or decorated inside with the same or similar themes that were popular in Rome.

In Britain, a similar enthusiasm has seen the construction of thousands of neoclassical buildings over the last five centuries, both civic and domestic, and many of the grandest country houses and mansions are purely Classical in style, an obvious example being [[Buckingham Palace]].<ref>Summerson, 13,</ref>