ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1187314/unearthing-the-ground-architecture-and-the-politics-of-water Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Diogo Borges Ferreira https://www.archdaily.com/1187314/unearthing-the-ground-architecture-and-the-politics-of-water When the Ostrogoths besieged Rome in 537 AD, their first military act was to cut the aqueducts. Eleven gravity-fed channels supplied the city with up to a million cubic meters of water per day, more than enough to sustain a population of over a million, fill the public baths, and scour the sewers. Without the aqueducts, Rome became a fortified enclosure around a contaminated river, proving that water was essential to the city's existence.

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