GREEK ARCHITECTURE

Greek Architecture

Greek Architecture

Introduction

Despite annals of rivalry, conflicts, and invasions, the Greek persons organised to make numerous significant assistance to art. Their accomplishments in architecture, especially temple architecture, were amidst their most enduring legacies to Western civilization (www.ancientgreece.com).

As Greek temples became bigger and more convoluted, temple builders started to evolve a number of normalized plans. These extended from easy one to two room organisations with columned porches, to multicoloured organisations with twice porches enclosed by columns. The Doric alignment and the Ionic alignment were well evolved by about 600 B.C. The Corinthian alignment, a variety of the ...