Ancient Greek And Greek Architecture

Both the Greeks and the Romans made a number of contributions to western culture in the field of architecture, many of which can still be seen to this very day. Architecture played a pivotal role in both the religion and daily life of ancient Greek society. The Greeks produced some of the world’s most enduring architectural monuments, many of which are still standing today. These include the Parthenon, the Temple of Zeus, and the Temple of Poseidon. Perhaps one of the largest contributions of the ancient Greeks to western civilization in regards to architecture was their development of the three fundamental architectural systems of design, the Doric, Iconic, and Corinthian orders. The following excerpt from an article

As the saying goes, great art is mad with its own loveliness. Over the decades, Greek-inspired architecture has been seen all over the world. Ideas are often borrowed while constructing buildings, monuments, and even houses. Greeks mostly used wood, limestone, unbaked bricks, terracotta and metal for construction. Most architecture were inspired by religion, politics, and form of recreation. Of all designs from Greek architecture three of them have withstood the test of time and their application can be seen today. They include Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian order. However, each order is distinct from the other and one cannot differentiate unless trained. This paper will look at Doric and Corinthian orders while comparing and contrasting them. It will also trace their prevalence and popularity throughout history.

One clear way that Greek architecture is portrayed in today’s culture is how important people are honored. Take a temple for instance. “Many of these temples were built on a large hill known as an acropolis, and it generally included

All civilizations that have ever existed in the world have had their own unique forms of art that distinguish each from the other. This has been evident in trends such as culture, religion, economics and even art and architecture. The influence that Ancient Greeks had on architecture is enormous and has influenced modern day architecture all around the world. They were the first to look at buildings as not only a place to live, work and worship the Gods, but also a way of communicating to generations and civilizations to come, ancient Greek beliefs and philosophy. More specifically, the Greek temple is the most distinguished and influential form of public religious architecture in the history of

One of the main areas that we can see the influence of the Greeks in the Roman Empire is through the architecture that they used. Both Greece and Rome have some of the most beautiful architectural buildings in the world. The two that are most notable is the Parthenon in Greece and the Pantheon in Rome. The Romans picked up on the Greeks most favorite form of architect: the arch. “The arch constituted a clear technological advance over the post-and-lintel construction used by the Greeks in buildings like the Parthenon”

The Romans were great admirers of the Greek culture, and down the road they merged their art and knowledge into their own ways of living. Roman and Greek mythology are almost identical except their actual language is different. The Romans brought in artist from all over Greece to work in their areas so therefore Roman art work looked just like Greek art both in architecture and sculpture. The most important invention in the Roman architecture was the Arch, and thanks to the arch the development of the aqueduct “water conduct” was created.

This resulted in and innovative constructions utilising both pre existing techniques as well as new ones, which the Romans had devised. This lead to a new outlook on design expressed in the creation of new architectural structures such as arches, amphitheatres and improvements on pre existing structures such as granaries and residential housing areas. The already-existing structures that the Greeks had invented, the Romans later both improved upon and changed and decorated in different ways. Such as the changes made to Corinthian column making it more decorative. This lead to the invention of the composite capital, which was a mixture of both the Ionic and Corinthian columns, maintain the base and frame of the Ionic with the decorative acanthus leaves of the Corinthian. This in term led to the redesign of the Doric column creation the Tuscan

“The Romans retained many ideas about buildings from their Etruscan predecessors, but they also absorbed some of the ideas of the Greek that were passed onto them by the Etruscans” (Bleiberg, 2005). When looking back in time, the basic style of architecture that the Greek, Roman and Etruscans used was different but also similar in a few ways such as techniques, materials, structures, etc. For instance, when Roman architectures began to build their first temple of their time, they based the structure off the Etruscans temple. Due to the fact that their structures promoted an openness to them unlike the Greek temples. When looking at these styles closer, the Greek architecture was known for their use of columns and colonnade, but the Roman architecture was known for their use of arches and vaults.

Roman and Greek architecture is something to be revered. It is fascinating that people lacking the advanced technology we have today could create monuments of such magnitude and perfection. Commonly, these temples were built to worship and honor deities, and so they must be built pristine. Although the Romans sometimes cut corners when it came to materials in order to remain economic, they definitely didn’t cut any when it came to scale and appearance.

As the saying goes “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” however long it took to build the capital, the days, months, years, centuries of work can be viewed as a long lasting landmark which paved the way for new and challenging architecture to come (How Roman architecture influenced modern architecture [sa]). According to Tony Rook (2013: [sp] ch.2) the typical Roman temple shows the Etruscan tradition combined with the Greek one. Although some of their premature concepts were acquired from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, Roman architects transformed the body of architecture for all time to come, offering buildings and structures that has never been before, along the side of public buildings and infrastructure that could be used by

Greek architects invented several different styles of columns; the simplest column, called the Doric column, is used throughout architecture today. “In the Doric Order, the column shaft is simple

The Greeks had a strong influence on the Roman architecture. It can be clearly seen in the Temple design. Although Roman architects took the influence and made something with different characteristics.

The Corinthian order columns are the most extravagant type of column. It was the last column to be developed by the ancient Greeks. The Greeks did not really use this type of column to its full potential, but the ancient Romans did (“Ancient Greece” 3). Some examples of monuments or building that used the Corinthian order consisted of the temple of Zeus at Athens. It was probably the most notable of the Corinthian temples (“Ancient Greece” 3).

The History of Greek Architecture The architecture of ancient Greece is represented by buildings in the sanctuaries and cities of mainland Greece, the Aegean islands, southern Italy and Sicily, and the Ionian coast of Turkey. Monumental Greek architecture began in the archaic period, flourished through the classical and Hellenistic periods, and saw the first of many revivals during the Roman Empire. The roots of Greek architecture lie in the tradition of local Bronze Age house and palaces. The following paper will cover the basic forms of Greek architecture.

The temples of the greek architecture is the most remaining example for the buildings types. It was also built to be an art of honor to their gods, they also have ornated these temples on the outside only. While the roman buildings still preserved nowdays due to the creative materials, such as concrete. They have many public spaces like bathhouses, amphitheaters which where for sporting events and aqueducts. Romans architects have ornated on both the inside and the outside. They also built many churches which it was originally a law court law. The romans have used many columns in their buildings that the greek architects used it also, but they added the dome and the arch.