2. CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
• REFERS TO A STYLE OF BUILDINGS
ORIGINALLY CONSTRUCTED BY THE
GREEKS AND ROMAN
• THE ARCHITECTURE WAS PRIMARILY
TRABEATED (POST AND BEAM) AND
EVOLVED FROM TIMBER ORIGINS
GEOGRAPHY
GREEK PENINSULA - BOUNDED ON 2 SIDES
BY BLACK SEA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
SEA
GEOLOGY
STONES AND MARBLES – CHIEF BUILDING
MATERIALS
RELIGION
GODS AND GODDESSES
AGEANS WORSHIP NATURE
GREEKS WORSHIP NATURAL PHENOMENA
SOCIO-POLITICAL
MUSIC, DANCING, GLADIATOR FIGHTS, HORSE, RACING.
CLASSICAL
ARCHITECTURE
GREECE
3. D. 4 METHODS OF WALLING SURFACE FINISH
CLASSICAL
ARCHITECTURE
GREECE
PERIODS
1. EARLY PERIOD
AEGEANS, MINOANS, MYCENEANS
AEGEAN PERIOD
• STRUCTURES WAS GENERALLY ROUGH AND MASSIVE.
• THE CAPITAL IS ORNAMENTED WITH SQUARE ABACUS
AND A CIRCULAR BULBOUS ECHINUS.
CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES:
A. LOW PITCH/FLAT ROOF ON MULTI-STOREY STRUCTURE
B. STAIRWAY WAS DEVELOPED FOR VERTICAL CIRCULATION
C. HOUSE TERMED AS MEGARON AND PALACES WERE
PRINCIPAL BUILDING TYPES.
MEGARON - SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH A CENTRAL
ROOM AND PORTICOED ENTRANCE.
PARTS OF MEGARON:
1. ENCLOSED PORCH
2. LIVING APARTMENTS
3. THALAMUS – SLEEPING QUARTERS.
CYCLOPEAN WALL IN
MYCENAE, GREECE
POLYGONAL WALL
RECTANGULAR WALL
INCLINED BLOCKS
TWO TYPES OF AEGEAN TOMB:
1. THOLOS TOMB
2. ROCK TOMB
6. CLASSICAL
ARCHITECTURE
GREECE
PERIOD
2. HELLENIC PERIOD
• GREEK HISTORY, CULTURE AND ART
• TEMPLE BECAME THE CHIEF BUILDING TYPE.
• COLUMNAR AND TRABEATED
• MATERIALS: TIMBER, STONE, TERACOTTA
CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES:
1. THEY USE RECTANGULAR PLAN
2. PROPYLAEA – MONUMENTAL GATES OR
ENTRANCEWAYS
3. COLLONADE SURROUND THE TEMPLE
4. LACUNARIA – TIMBER PANELLED COFFERS
5. WALLS WERE MADE UP OF STONE
6. MARBLE SCULPTURES COMPLETED THE BUILDINGS
7. MURAL PAINTS
8. OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
ACROPOLIS
CITY ON THE HEIGHT
A CITY STRONGHOLD OR FORTRESS CONSTRUCTED ON
HIGHER GROUND
PROPYLAEA, ATHENIAN, ACROPOLIS
ACROPOLIS
8. CLASSICAL
ARCHITECTURE
GREECE
PERIOD
2. HELLENIC PERIOD
TEMENOS
SACRED AREA OR ENCLOSURE SURROUNDING A CLASSICAL
GREEK TEMPLE
PARTHENON
ATHENS, GREECE
BUILT IN HONOR OF ATENA, THE CITY’S PATRON GODDESS.
USED PROPORTION 2N+1 IN DETERMINING THE NUMBER
OF COLUMNS ON THE SIDES OF A TEMPLE
NAOS OR CELLA
PRINCIPAL CHAMBER; ENCLOSED PART OF THE TEMPLE
WHERE THE CULT IMAGE WAS KEPT.
PRONAOS OR ANTICUM
OPEN VERSTIBULE BEFORE THE CELLA.
EPINAOS OR POSTICUM
REAR VERSTIBULE
OPISTHODOMOS
SMALL ROOM IN THE CELLA AS FOR A TREASURY
ENTASIS
SLIGHT CONVEX CURVE IN THE SHAFT OF A COLUMN.
PARTHENON
ATHENS, GREECE
PLAN OF PARTHENON
10. CLASSICAL
ARCHITECTURE
GREECE INTERCOLUMNATION
IS THE PROPORTIONAL SPACING BETWEEN COLUMNS IN A
COLONNADE.
STANDARD INTERCOLUMNIATIONS:
Pycnostyle
One and a half diameters
Systyle
Two diameters
Eustyle
Two and a quarter diameters (and three diameters between
middle columns front and rear); considered by Vitruvius to be
the best proportion.
Diastyle
Three diameters
Araeostyle
Four or more diameters, requiring a wooden architrave rather
than one of stone
Araeosystyle
Alternating araeostyle and systyle
PERIOD
2. HELLENIC PERIOD
14. CLASSICAL
ARCHITECTURE
GREECE
CARYATID
SCULPTED FEMALE FIGURE SERVING
AN ARCHITECTURAL SUPPORT
TAKING THE PLACE OF A COLUMN.
REPRESENTS THE WOMEN OF
CARYAE WHO WERE DOOMED TO
HARD LABOR
ATLAS OR TELAMON
MALE VERSION OF A CARYATID.
ATLAS
MALE FIGURE IN KNEELING
POSITION
TELAMON
MALE FIGURE IN STANDING
POSITION
CANEPHORAE
FEMALE SCULPTED WITH BASKET
ON HER HEAD
CARYATID
CANEPHORAE
ATLAS/ATLANTES
PERIOD
2. HELLENIC PERIOD
TELAMON
15. CLASSICAL
ARCHITECTURE
GREECE
THE CLASSICAL ORDERS
THE GREEK ARCHITECTURE USED SPECIFIC STYLES CALELD ORDERS.
3 TYPES OF ORDERS:
DORIC
IONIC
CORINTHIAN
DORIC ORDER
MOST BASIC ORDER
FIRST TO DEVELOP
USED IN GREECE, SOUTHERN ITALY AND SICILY.
3 MAIN PARTS:
STEPPED PLATFORM
COLUMNS
ENTABLATURE
EXAMPLE STRUCTURE: PARTHENON, GREECE
16. CLASSICAL
ARCHITECTURE
GREECE
THE CLASSICAL ORDERS
THE GREEK ARCHITECTURE USED SPECIFIC STYLES CALELD ORDERS.
3 TYPES OF ORDERS:
DORIC
IONIC
CORINTHIAN
IONIC ORDER
SECOND TO DEVELOPED IN IONIAN ISLAND (WESTERN TURKEY)
FLUTED COLUMNS TYPICALLY MOLDED BASES.
CAPITAL: SPIRAL VOLUTES.
ENTABLATURE; CONSIST OF AN ARCHITRAVE OF 3 FASCIAS.
A RICHLY ORNAMENTED FRIEZE
EXAMPLE STRUCTURE:
TEMPLE OF ATHENA NIKE
ERECHTEUM, ACROPOLIS ATHENS
17. CLASSICAL
ARCHITECTURE
GREECE
THE CLASSICAL ORDERS
THE GREEK ARCHITECTURE USED SPECIFIC STYLES CALELD ORDERS.
3 TYPES OF ORDERS:
DORIC
IONIC
CORINTHIAN
CORINTHIAN ORDER
NAMED AFTER THE CITY OF CORINTH, WHERE SCULPTOR
CALLIMACHUS SUPPOSEDLY INVENTED IT
CAPITAL IS MORE ORNATE, CARVED WITH TWO TIERS OR CURLY
ACANTHUS LEAVES.
CHARACTERISTICS:
SIMILAR TO IONIC BUT USUALLY SLENDER IN PROPORTIONS.
CAPITAL: DEEP-BELL SHAPED DECORATED WITH ACANTHUS LEAVES