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Influence Of History On Building: The West German pavilion at Expo 67 explored the principle of cable-supported tent structures and thereby opened up an untapped, unexploited building type, which will have an inevitable influence on future design and construction. Although the tent is as old as recorded history, the West German building marked one of the first times it has been built with modern materials and construction methods.
Again different in character is the Roman esque architecture of Sicily. A clearer exampl of the influence of history on building form would be hard to find. Upon the cultural sub stratum laid by Greece and Rome, successive in vasions by the Byzantines (535), the Saracen (827), and the Normans (1061) deposited thei layers of culture, while the association with Lom bardy and the Holy Roman Empire superimpose! a north Italian strain.
A good part of the history of contract in the civil law is the history of how the Roman law's limitation on the number of recognized types of enforceable, purely consensual transactions was overcome. This was the result in part of misunderstanding and in part of a conscious effort to shape a system more responsive to commercial needs and practices. In large measure, the pressure came from the practical requirements of commerce. The speculative thought of churchmen and, later, of natural law philosophers also was important. Roman law influenced these developments not only by providing the starting point but also through the legal thinking and legal science that had gradually grown up around the study of the Corpus Juris. To explain the form this latter influence took, one must consider the Roman influence upon the general patterns of thought of the civil law system. |
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