Arch

Arch

An arch is a structure that spans a space and supports a load. Arches appeared as early as the 2nd millennium BC in Mesopotamian brick architecture and their systematic use started with the Ancient Romans who were the first to apply the technique to a wide range of structures.

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Famous quotes containing the word arch:

    “Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell
    Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red
    Reverberance of hail upon the dead
    Thunder like an exploding crucible!”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “An arch never sleeps.”
    —East Indian saying.

    “Concord’s little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)