Ionic order

The Parthenon, the most important surviving building from ancient Greece, has survived the conversion into a Christian church, the Ottoman Turk invasion of Greece, and the Venetian bombardment of the Parthenon. Since Greece’s style of architecture was very exquisite, it is copied and used in many buildings today. The Doric columns, Ionic columns, and the Corinthian columns are the three main styles of columns in Ancient Greece. Doric columns were the most simple, thickest of the three, had no decoration at the base on the bottom, had a simple capital at the top, and were wider on the bottom than at the top. Ionic columns were thinner than the Doric columns, had a base at the bottom, and the capital at the top was decorated with scrolls on…

The temple of Portunus showed many elements of different architectural traditions as the high podium and the strong fronting from the Italic and the ionic ordered columns and the engaged pilasters and columns from the Hellenistic. Those temples are considered from the most important temples of Greek and Roman architecture that inspired so many architects and that need to be studied and seen by many architects as they have shown so many architectural traditions in their style, plan and their ways…

layout is extremely functional, and dually purposive. The location, on a hill or mountain, allows a far view of approaching enemies, as well as the opportunity to possible reach the ear of the patron god since it was the closest structure to the Heavens. The Parthenon is the most famous example of an acropolis, and it was built for the city of Athens that worshipped Athena. It doubled as the main temple and the treasury, a hub of funds gathered by neighboring Greek cities to pay for the many…

Located in front of the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Georgia is a statue of the Greek architect-sculptor Phidias. The statue of Phidias fits in well with its surroundings. It is centered by four other statues. The surrounding statues are also iconic artists: Michelangelo, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Raphael. The artists’ statues are purposefully placed in front of the Telfair Museum because the Telfair is an art museum. All of the statues are lifted on pedestals. The Phidias statue is about four…

The statehouse is built in the Greek Revival style which is a design type based on the buildings of Ancient Greece. This was popular in the US from 1820 through the early 1860s. It’s a masonry building consisting of Columbus limestone on the exterior which was taken from a quarry on the banks of the Scioto River. I chose to describe the architectural elements of the back side of the statehouse. Looking at the portico at the center of the building, the top contains the pediment space. The sima…

Greek Temple My Greek temple sits on a cliff looking over the Aegean Sea. My temple is dedicated to Poseidon who’s the God of the sea, and protectors of the water. The style I chose to use to build my temple was Iconic. My temple is rather long, and measuring twenty four by forty-five sq. ft. My columns are each three feet apart. They stretch to thirty-two feet tall and there are eight columns in the front eight columns in the back, and fifteen columns on each side. There is a carved band…

The Arch of Titus vs. the Arch of Septimius For many years, triumphal arches has been the most influential and unique types of architecture related to ancient Rome. It is a monumental structure, usually with one or more archway, that is designed to distant a road. In its simplest form a triumphal arch consists of two massive piers connected by an arch, crowned with a flat entablature or attic on which a statue might be mounted or which bears commemorative inscriptions. (“Roman Triumphal Arches”)…

Sullivan saw Jenney’s work through the eyes of his transcendent nature. He claimed in his essay “The Tall Office Building Artfully Considered,” that the momentous task of designing such building was a practical one, for such proposes, and thus was founded through common reasoning and intuition, not taciturn schooled learning. Louis Sullivan coined the now popular phrase “form follows function “in this essay. He eliminated the notion that arbitrary ornament was necessary to conceal lack of…

Greek temples were famous for their the three types of columns on their exterior: doric, ionic, and corinthian. Doric columns have a round base, and get thinner, higher as they go up. Ionic columns, at the top, have stone that curls into spirals. Corinthian columns have flower-like decorations at the top. This is a digital recreation of the temple of zeus in Athens. It has doric temples, and a frieze There are 8 different designs for the interior of Greek temples. Each temple is based around…

times, pottery is now used more for aesthetics. Moreover, the stories told on these works have changed meaning as time has worn on. There are two main types of columns in antiquity: Doric and Ionic. Doric columns are very simplistic; they have no ornate topping and have no base. Instead, the column itself is topped by an entablature containing alternating decorative lines and blank spaces, called tryglyphs and metopes, respectively. Ionic order columns are slightly different. They contain a…