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I know this is just a bit of humor, but illustrative: people in the past built all sorts of shoddy or unstable structures! And you don't see those everywhere because they decayed, collapsed etc. "They don't make 'em like they used to" is frequently just survivorship bias.https://twitter.com/archeohistories/status/1456791324481388546 …
The same is true with assessments of things like art, literature of the beauty of architecture: the things we still have, that survived, were things recognized as excellent over long periods. So of course the top few % of works look better than the run of the mill today.
It is also important here not to confuse prestige objects/buildings/projects in the past with more common equivalents today. Comparing the McMansions of the top 5% today with the chateau's of the top .5% of yesterday is a category error.
Anyway, Roman engineers made all sorts of awful constructions. Roman insulae caught fire or collapsed all the time. Roman constructions vary wildly in quality and using cheap stone like tufa inside a shell of expensive stone like marble or travertine was common.
Also Roman roads didn’t(usually) have to deal with the two main reasons roads end up like that, multi ton wheeled vehicles, and water getting trapped under the road and then freezing, splitting the cement in the process.
Even when the latter did happen, brick roads like the romans built are better able to deal with it, because the bricks just get moved up and apart when the water freezes and then back down when it melts, vs splitting. But obviously we can still build brick roads!
Exactly, also where exactly does this person think the word Engineer comes from i.e. Latin ingenium (see engine)
You”re right of course, but still, having seen plenty of Roman wall and road segments (and the Pantheon) I’d still like to give a positive shout-out to those Roman engineers who *did* build for the ages, and succeeded. Be nice to think our best stuff will last as long
The most significant tasks of engineering is right sizing solutions.
I saw a flood wall constructed by hand by Afghans using ancient methods. Was gone with the spring floods. They were preparing to build it again as I suspect they had hundreds or thousands of times over the years when we suggested concrete; they happily agreed to try it our way
also weird to imply that the laborers pictured are the folks who came up with and self-directed this building method
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