Some spaces were designed to be experienced together.
For the Romans, cities were not just collections of buildings.
They were experiences.
Bath houses were not only for hygiene.
Forums were not only for politics.
Amphitheaters were not only for entertainment.
Everything was carefully designed: water, light, movement, crowd scale.
Spaces like the Baths of Caracalla were created to make people gather and feel part of something larger than themselves, because architecture was never only creating places.
It was creating emotion.
People remember atmosphere, not dimensions.
By Roy Boustani
