Due to the size of their Empire, its reach, wealth and its power the Romans were not content to let Rome or their other cities look shabby and like the Celtic and Germanic people they had just subjugated. The roundhouse, with its thatched roof and mud walls, was by far the most common type of dwelling that people lived in. The Romans, and their Etruscan predecessors suddenly lived in them but when the money was rolling in from around the Empire it was time to move on to something more up market. They needed the services of Residential Architects London based company RBD Design to get them some truly beautiful looking houses.
The first thing they did was look at what the Greeks had built. The Romans looked to the Greeks for most things. Art, laws, religion, government, science, philosophy, war all of these elements of the Roman empire came from an in depth study of the Greeks and a healthy dose of the Egyptians as well. The one thing that the Romans were most interested in was how the Greeks built their religious and public buildings.
Marble and stone were in abundance in parts of Greece and the Romans soon copied their style for large Ionic or Doric columns to support large structures like the Senate. Earthenware bricks were used to construct villas outside of the city and a form of rudimentary cement was used to hold the bricks together using lime.