Essay On Greek Architecture

GREEK BUILDINGS

Greek architects depended on the most unique building over the ancient world and their structures, like temples, theatres, and stadiums, were basic features of towns and cities., the Greek were depending on simplicity, clearance, and rhythm.

Greek architecture wanted to be like a piece of art which would makes the gods Pleasants. This was obvious in the ornamented exteriors of the buildings; in the pediments and metopic and the relative drabness of the interiors. The buildings of The Greeks designed to be sculptures, with all of the beauty to be showed to everyone from the outside

Styles Ancient Greek architecture is consisted of three (orders): the Doric , the ionic and the Corinthian order, and the names explain their origins types of Ancient Greek architecture

Above: Capital or the head of the Ionic order showing volutes and ornamented echinus

RIGHT: Capital of the Corinthian order show foliated decoration and vertical flutes. Left: Architectural shape of the Doric order showing simple curved echinus of capital

THE DORIC ORDER

Doric columns haven’t bases, except a few ones in Hellenistic

the ancient Greek used the bricks made of clay and wood for wall structures while they used thatch to roofing the houses , after that they get stones as limestone which persisted by architects because it was easy to cut however it was more fragile and easy to crack . Then they used the marble which was difficult to cut and deal with but they used it in decorative sculpting espcialy for fininshing surface used in the well-known structures like the temple of Olymmpus Zeus it was white at their days and now it had some gray coulor on it . Finaly the pink limestone of Epirus from its name it been used in Epirus and it identified by yellow color with light shadow of pink this type of limestone was used in limited amounts to provide some decorative touches or to add