Apollodorus of Damascus

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Trajan's Forum, Rome, designed by Apollodorus of Damascus, early 2nd century ad; one of the semicircular colonnaded exedrae.

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Died	c.130
Notable Works	Trajan’s Column

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American engineer

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Callicrates

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus

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Ictinus

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Dinocrates

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Antonio Contino

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Andrés Duany

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José Benito Churriguera

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Jean I Androuet du Cerceau

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Jacques Androuet du Cerceau

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