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hist ory of archit ect ure History of Architecture Part I- Ancient Architecture Lecture - IV
hist ory of archit ect ure Greek The Historical Timeline of Architecture PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO Pre-Historic Egyptian Near East Greek
hist ory of archit ect ure INFLUENCES HISTORY Aegean Period (Minoan) • Civilizations on Crete and Greek mainland from 1900 to 1100 BC • The first great commercial and naval power in the Mediterranean, founded on trade with the whole eastern seaboard: Asia Minor, Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Libya, even South Italy and Sicily on the west • Trade and communications produced a unity of culture and economic stability • Knossos was the largest city, had a magnificent palace Mycenaean or Helladic (1550 to 1100 BC) • Continuation of Cretan ideas and craftsmanship on mainland Greece • Wealth due to their control of metal trading between Europe and Middle East Hellenic Period (800 to 323 BC) • City-states developed on the plains between mountains – Sparta and Athens were most important • The "polis" emerged as the basis of Greek society • Each had its own ruler, government and laws • A federal unity existed between city-states due to common language, customs, religion • Several different forms of government: Oligarchic, Tyrannic, Democratic • Under Pericles (444 BC to 429 BC), peak of Athenian prosperity • Outburst of building activity and construction, developments in art, law-making, philosophy and science • Philosophers – Socrates, Plato, Aristotle • Among best soldiers in the ancient world – Hoplite Army defeated repeated invasions by Darius and Xerxes of Persia • Alexander the Great of Macedonia conquered Persia, Asia Minor, Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan • Greek language and culture reached an enormous area Hellenistic Period (323 to 30 BC) • Hellenistic Empire established, Greek civilization extended Greek MEMPHIS Greek Empire under Alexander the Great of Macedonia PERSIA EGYPT THEBES CRETE ASIA MINOR INDIA SYRIA PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
hist ory of archit ect ure GEOLOGY & CLIMATE • On the mainland, rugged mountains made communication difficult • Mountains separated inhabitants into groups, clans, states • archipelago and islands: sea was the inevitable means of trade and communications • Between rigorous cold and relaxing heat • Clear atmosphere and intense light - conducive to creating precise and exact forms • Judicial activities, dramatic presentations, public ceremonies took place in the open air RELIGION Aegean religion: • Primitive stage of nature worship • Priestesses conducted religious rites, sacred games, ritual dances, worship on sacrificial altars Greek religion: • A highly developed form of nature worship • Gods as personifications of natural elements, or deified mortals • Gods could influence events in the human world • Greeks sought advice from oracles – oracle at Delphi Greek ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER DESCRIPTION Aegean • Rough and massive Hellenic • Mostly religious architecture • "carpentry in marble“ - timber forms imitated in stone with remarkable exactness Hellenistic • Not religious in character, but civic – for the people • Provided inspiration for Roman building types • Dignified and gracious structures • Symmetrical, orderly CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM • Columnar and trabeated • Roof truss appeared, enabling large spaces to be unhindered by columns MATERIALS • Timber and terra cotta • Stone PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
hist ory of archit ect ure EXAMPLES HOUSES On islands: • Flat roofing • Drawn together in blocks • Two to four storeys high • Light admitted through light wells On mainland: • Single-storeyed house with deep plan • Columned entrance porch with central doorway • Living apartment proper with sleeping room behind TOMBS • rock-cut or chamber tombs - “tholos” tomb Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae Greek PALACES Palace of King Minos, Knossos Palace at Tyrins Lion Gate, Mycenae PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
hist ory of archit ect ure Greek TEMPLES • Chief building type • Earliest ones resembled megaron in plan and construction • Number of columns at entrance: 1 column – hemostyle 2 columns – distyle 3 columns – tristyle 4 columns – tetrastyle 5 columns – pentastyle 6 columns – hexastyle 7 columns – heptastyle 8 columns – octastyle 9 columns – enneastyle 10 columns – decastyle 12 columns – dodecastyle PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
hist ory of archit ect ure Greek MOULDINGS • Architectural devices, which with light and shade, produce definition to a building • Could be refined and delicate in contour, due to fineness of marble and the clarity of atmosphere and light Arris Splay Fillet Billet Cove Cavetto Ogee Cyma Recta Cyma Reversa Beak Brace PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
hist ory of archit ect ure • Certain refinements used to correct optical illusions: • Horizontal lines built convex to correct sagging • Vertical features inclined inwards to correct appearance of falling outwards • On columns, entasis was used, swelling outwards to correct appearance of curving inwards METHODS OF NATURAL LIGHTING • no windows • clerestory - situated between roof and upper portion of wall • skylight - made of thin, translucent marble • temple door, oriented towards the east Greek GREEK ORDERS • Shaft, Capital, and Horizontal entablature (architrave, frieze, cornice) • Originally, Doric and Ionic, named after the two main branches of Greek race • Then there evolved Corinthian, a purely decorative order PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
hist ory of archit ect ure DORIC ORDER • Without base, directly on crepidoma • Height (including capital) of 4 to 6 times the diameter at the base • Shaft diminishes at top from 3/4 to 2/3 of base diameter • Divided into 20 shallow flutes separated by arrises • Doric capitals had two parts - the square abacus above and circular bulbous echinus below Doric entablature: • Height is 1 and 3/4 times the lower diameter in height 3 main divisions: • Architrave, principal beam of 2 or 3 slabs in depth • Frieze • Cornice, mouldings Greek PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
hist ory of archit ect ure IONIC ORDER • Volute or scroll capital (derived from Egyptian lotus and Aegean art) Ionic column: • More slender than Doric • Needed a base to spread load • Height was 9 times the base diameter • Has 24 flutes separated by fillets • Upper and lower torus Ionic entablature: • Height was 2 and 1/4 times the diameter of column Two parts: • Architrave,with fasciae • Cornice • No frieze Greek PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
hist ory of archit ect ure Greek CORINTHIAN ORDER • Decorative variant of Ionic Order Corinthian column: • Base and shaft resembled Ionic • More slender • Height of 10 diameters • Capital: much deeper than Ionic, 1 and 1/6 diameters high • Capital invented by Callimachus, inspired by basket over root of acanthus plant 3 parts: • Architrave, • Frieze, • Cornice, developed type with dentils PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
hist ory of archit ect ure Temple of Nike Apteros, Athens Temple of Artemis Ephesus The Erectheion, Acropolis Greek PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO Temple of Hera, Paestum The Parthenon, Acropolis
hist ory of archit ect ure AGORA STOA PRYTANEION, BOULEUTERION, or ASSEMBLY HALL TEMENOS • Enclosure designated as a sacred land • Entire groups of buildings laid out symmetrically and orderly Acropolis at Pergamon The Acropolis, Athens 10 structures form a world-famous building group: • Propylaea • Pinacotheca • Statue of Athena Promachos • Erectheion • Parthenon • Temple of Nike Apteros • Old Temple of Athena • Stoa of Eumeses • Theater of Dionysus • Odeon of Herodes Atticus Greek PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
hist ory of archit ect ure STADIUM or HIPPODROME PROPYLAEA PALAESTRA and GYMNASIUM NAVAL BUILDING TOMBS/ MAUSOLEUM Greek PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO THEATER or ODEION • Carved or hollowed out of the hillside • Acoustically-efficient Theater of Epidauros
hist ory of archit ect ure Greek PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO

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Lec-IV_Ancient Greek Architecture.pdf

  • 1. hist ory of archit ect ure History of Architecture Part I- Ancient Architecture Lecture - IV
  • 2. hist ory of archit ect ure Greek The Historical Timeline of Architecture PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO Pre-Historic Egyptian Near East Greek
  • 3. hist ory of archit ect ure INFLUENCES HISTORY Aegean Period (Minoan) • Civilizations on Crete and Greek mainland from 1900 to 1100 BC • The first great commercial and naval power in the Mediterranean, founded on trade with the whole eastern seaboard: Asia Minor, Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Libya, even South Italy and Sicily on the west • Trade and communications produced a unity of culture and economic stability • Knossos was the largest city, had a magnificent palace Mycenaean or Helladic (1550 to 1100 BC) • Continuation of Cretan ideas and craftsmanship on mainland Greece • Wealth due to their control of metal trading between Europe and Middle East Hellenic Period (800 to 323 BC) • City-states developed on the plains between mountains – Sparta and Athens were most important • The "polis" emerged as the basis of Greek society • Each had its own ruler, government and laws • A federal unity existed between city-states due to common language, customs, religion • Several different forms of government: Oligarchic, Tyrannic, Democratic • Under Pericles (444 BC to 429 BC), peak of Athenian prosperity • Outburst of building activity and construction, developments in art, law-making, philosophy and science • Philosophers – Socrates, Plato, Aristotle • Among best soldiers in the ancient world – Hoplite Army defeated repeated invasions by Darius and Xerxes of Persia • Alexander the Great of Macedonia conquered Persia, Asia Minor, Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan • Greek language and culture reached an enormous area Hellenistic Period (323 to 30 BC) • Hellenistic Empire established, Greek civilization extended Greek MEMPHIS Greek Empire under Alexander the Great of Macedonia PERSIA EGYPT THEBES CRETE ASIA MINOR INDIA SYRIA PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
  • 4. hist ory of archit ect ure GEOLOGY & CLIMATE • On the mainland, rugged mountains made communication difficult • Mountains separated inhabitants into groups, clans, states • archipelago and islands: sea was the inevitable means of trade and communications • Between rigorous cold and relaxing heat • Clear atmosphere and intense light - conducive to creating precise and exact forms • Judicial activities, dramatic presentations, public ceremonies took place in the open air RELIGION Aegean religion: • Primitive stage of nature worship • Priestesses conducted religious rites, sacred games, ritual dances, worship on sacrificial altars Greek religion: • A highly developed form of nature worship • Gods as personifications of natural elements, or deified mortals • Gods could influence events in the human world • Greeks sought advice from oracles – oracle at Delphi Greek ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER DESCRIPTION Aegean • Rough and massive Hellenic • Mostly religious architecture • "carpentry in marble“ - timber forms imitated in stone with remarkable exactness Hellenistic • Not religious in character, but civic – for the people • Provided inspiration for Roman building types • Dignified and gracious structures • Symmetrical, orderly CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM • Columnar and trabeated • Roof truss appeared, enabling large spaces to be unhindered by columns MATERIALS • Timber and terra cotta • Stone PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
  • 5. hist ory of archit ect ure EXAMPLES HOUSES On islands: • Flat roofing • Drawn together in blocks • Two to four storeys high • Light admitted through light wells On mainland: • Single-storeyed house with deep plan • Columned entrance porch with central doorway • Living apartment proper with sleeping room behind TOMBS • rock-cut or chamber tombs - “tholos” tomb Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae Greek PALACES Palace of King Minos, Knossos Palace at Tyrins Lion Gate, Mycenae PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
  • 6. hist ory of archit ect ure Greek TEMPLES • Chief building type • Earliest ones resembled megaron in plan and construction • Number of columns at entrance: 1 column – hemostyle 2 columns – distyle 3 columns – tristyle 4 columns – tetrastyle 5 columns – pentastyle 6 columns – hexastyle 7 columns – heptastyle 8 columns – octastyle 9 columns – enneastyle 10 columns – decastyle 12 columns – dodecastyle PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
  • 7. hist ory of archit ect ure Greek MOULDINGS • Architectural devices, which with light and shade, produce definition to a building • Could be refined and delicate in contour, due to fineness of marble and the clarity of atmosphere and light Arris Splay Fillet Billet Cove Cavetto Ogee Cyma Recta Cyma Reversa Beak Brace PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
  • 8. hist ory of archit ect ure • Certain refinements used to correct optical illusions: • Horizontal lines built convex to correct sagging • Vertical features inclined inwards to correct appearance of falling outwards • On columns, entasis was used, swelling outwards to correct appearance of curving inwards METHODS OF NATURAL LIGHTING • no windows • clerestory - situated between roof and upper portion of wall • skylight - made of thin, translucent marble • temple door, oriented towards the east Greek GREEK ORDERS • Shaft, Capital, and Horizontal entablature (architrave, frieze, cornice) • Originally, Doric and Ionic, named after the two main branches of Greek race • Then there evolved Corinthian, a purely decorative order PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
  • 9. hist ory of archit ect ure DORIC ORDER • Without base, directly on crepidoma • Height (including capital) of 4 to 6 times the diameter at the base • Shaft diminishes at top from 3/4 to 2/3 of base diameter • Divided into 20 shallow flutes separated by arrises • Doric capitals had two parts - the square abacus above and circular bulbous echinus below Doric entablature: • Height is 1 and 3/4 times the lower diameter in height 3 main divisions: • Architrave, principal beam of 2 or 3 slabs in depth • Frieze • Cornice, mouldings Greek PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
  • 10. hist ory of archit ect ure IONIC ORDER • Volute or scroll capital (derived from Egyptian lotus and Aegean art) Ionic column: • More slender than Doric • Needed a base to spread load • Height was 9 times the base diameter • Has 24 flutes separated by fillets • Upper and lower torus Ionic entablature: • Height was 2 and 1/4 times the diameter of column Two parts: • Architrave,with fasciae • Cornice • No frieze Greek PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
  • 11. hist ory of archit ect ure Greek CORINTHIAN ORDER • Decorative variant of Ionic Order Corinthian column: • Base and shaft resembled Ionic • More slender • Height of 10 diameters • Capital: much deeper than Ionic, 1 and 1/6 diameters high • Capital invented by Callimachus, inspired by basket over root of acanthus plant 3 parts: • Architrave, • Frieze, • Cornice, developed type with dentils PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
  • 12. hist ory of archit ect ure Temple of Nike Apteros, Athens Temple of Artemis Ephesus The Erectheion, Acropolis Greek PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO Temple of Hera, Paestum The Parthenon, Acropolis
  • 13. hist ory of archit ect ure AGORA STOA PRYTANEION, BOULEUTERION, or ASSEMBLY HALL TEMENOS • Enclosure designated as a sacred land • Entire groups of buildings laid out symmetrically and orderly Acropolis at Pergamon The Acropolis, Athens 10 structures form a world-famous building group: • Propylaea • Pinacotheca • Statue of Athena Promachos • Erectheion • Parthenon • Temple of Nike Apteros • Old Temple of Athena • Stoa of Eumeses • Theater of Dionysus • Odeon of Herodes Atticus Greek PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO
  • 14. hist ory of archit ect ure STADIUM or HIPPODROME PROPYLAEA PALAESTRA and GYMNASIUM NAVAL BUILDING TOMBS/ MAUSOLEUM Greek PRE-HISTORIC NEAR EAST EGYPTIAN GREEK ROMAN EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE ROMANESQUE GOTHIC RENAISSANCE 18TH-19TH C REVIVAL 20TH C MODERN ISLAMIC INDIAN CHINESE & JAPANESE FILIPINO THEATER or ODEION • Carved or hollowed out of the hillside • Acoustically-efficient Theater of Epidauros