History of World Architecture I (Greece I)

Terms and important names/writings of Greece I, quiz 3.

Stereobate

A substructure of masonry visible above ground level.

Stylobate

A continuous flat coping or pavement on which a row of columns is supported.

Peristyle

A single colonnade surrounding a building or courtyard.

Naos

Greek for cella.

Order

In classical architecture, a column with base (usually), shaft, capital, and entablature, decorated and proportioned according to one of the accepted modes (e.g., Greek Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian).

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Ten Books on Architecture (ca. 16-14 BC)

Abbe Marc-Antoine Laugier

Essai sur l’architecture (1753)

Sir William Chambers

A Treatise on Civil Architecture (1759) - Argued that the Doric Order was fully developed first in wood then was translated into stone.

Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc

Entretiens sur l’architecture [Discourses on Architecture] (1872) - Argued and disagreed with Chambers and instead argues that the Doric Order was a new invention, completely conceptualized in stone. Combined the Doric and “ideal” invention.

Callimachus

Athenian sculptor credited with designing the Corinthian capital.