3 orders of antique architecture

Classical Classical ArchitectureArchitecture

Technique demands style

Post and lintel construction is simple, strong,and limited

Plan of the Parthenon

What do you notice about design? …space?

3 Orders of Antique Architecture + Basic vocabulary

Doric Order = oldest, most austere

Ionic Order = refined, more graceful

Corinthian Order = most complex

Challenge #1:Challenge #1: Temple of Athena Nike, Parthenon, AthensOrder?

Challenge #2:Challenge #2: Temple of Hera II, Paestrum, Italy Order?

Challenge #3:Challenge #3: Iktinos and Kalikrates, The Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece - Order?

Connections ?

In search of ideal relationships

Like Doryphoros, here is the culmination in a 200 year effort to find perfect order and harmony through strict mathematical porportions.

Note the development (refinement in search of balance/grace) of many features in the bottom image.

Symmetria is controlled by ratio x=2y+1

Sense of order disguises many actual irregularities; entasis, sloping . . .

460 B.C.E.

447-438 B.C.E.

Entasis Entasis

Challenge #4:Challenge #4: Maison Carrée, Nîmes, France Order? What seems “un-Greek ?”

Look-a-likes

What are the differences?

What some possible reasons for making them look similar?

Why not use the model completely? Theories?

What can be deduced about the values respective societies by comparing these two edifices?

value = value = P O W P O W E RE R

Pantheon, Rome, ItalyPantheon, Rome, Italy

value = value = S P A C ES P A C E

V A U L T SV A U L T S

D O M E SD O M E S

C E M E N TC E M E N T

A R C H E S

Examine: body design, weight and gravity, facial expression, movement/axis, interaction

1. Which image reflects Classical themes and style? L or R

2. What descriptive words can be applied to each?

LL RR