APAH: Greek Art – Architecture Temples Evolution from shrines to
... Face outward – Altar at front of temple Building as sculpture Exterior more important than interior Monuments not just buildings Built without mortise – extreme precision Reflects Greek principles: symmetry, harmony, balance, order Ideal forms Contrast to other civilizations Mathematical order – Rat ...
... Face outward – Altar at front of temple Building as sculpture Exterior more important than interior Monuments not just buildings Built without mortise – extreme precision Reflects Greek principles: symmetry, harmony, balance, order Ideal forms Contrast to other civilizations Mathematical order – Rat ...
Architectural History
... modeled their public buildings after Greek temples, such as the Parthenon. Greek architecture dominates the government buildings of Washington D.C., and many other cities around the United States. ...
... modeled their public buildings after Greek temples, such as the Parthenon. Greek architecture dominates the government buildings of Washington D.C., and many other cities around the United States. ...
Classical order
""An Order in architecture is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions, regulated by the office that each part has to perform"".The Architectural Orders are the ancient styles of classical architecture, each distinguished by its proportions and characteristic profiles and details, and most readily recognizable by the type of column employed. Three ancient orders of architecture—the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian—originated in Greece. To these the Romans added the Tuscan, which they made simpler than Doric, and the Composite, which was more ornamental than the Corinthian. The Architectural Order of a classical building is akin to the mode or key of classical music, the grammar or rhetoric of a written composition. It is established by certain modules like the intervals of music, and it raises certain expectations in an audience attuned to its language.