History Of Greek Architecture

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History Of Greek Architecture

BY Mike Langan Mike Rath
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Time Periods

• New Stone Age small houses or huts with wooden
  walls around them.
• Early Bronze Age One big house in the middle
  and small ones around it.
• Late Bronze Age Palaces, big stone tombs, paved
  roads and bridges, and dams.
• Greek Dark age palaces were burned, roads,
  bridges, and dams fell apart.
• Iron Age Temples of houses were built.
• Classic period more temples bigger and new
  designs Democracy uprised the development of
  public places.
• Hellenistic Period - Theaters are built, road
  planning comes into the picture.

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Architects

• Mnesicles
• Ictinus
• Kallikrates
• Phidias

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Mnesicles

• Active around 440 B.C. Designed Erectheion and
  Propylaia of the Acropolis in Athens.

(Propylaia of the acropolis)
(Erectheion of the Acropolis)
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Ictinus

• He is credited in the creation of the Parthenon
  in Athens,The Telesterion Temple at Eleusis, and
  the temple of Apollo at Bassai.

Temple of Apollo at Bassai
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Kallikrates

• Kallikrates worked mainly in Athens and might
  have been the citys architect. He focused on
  technical and managerial aspects of Architecture.

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Phidias

• Phidias supervised all architectural and
  artistic works on the Acropolis in Athens. All
  the exterior sculptures were produced under his
  order. But the enormous statue of Athena in the
  temple was his work.

(Statue of Athena)
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Greek Styles
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Doric

• Style was used in mainland Greece and and
  colonies in Southern Italy and Sicily.
• Developed approximately 5th Century B.C.
• Its capital is plain with fluted columns.

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Ionic

• Style was founded in Eastern Greece and the
  Islands.
• Developed approximately 4th Century B.C.
• Its capital is a scroll like design.

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Corinthian

• Style was rarely used in Greece but seen a lot on
  Roman temples.
• Developed approximately 4th Century B.C.
• Its capital is elaborate and decorated with
  acanthus leaves.

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Geographic Areas

• The Temple of Apollo at Didyma, Turkey was built
  around 300 B.C. The columns were Ionic.

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• The Temple of Athena Nike in Athens, Greece was
  built around 420 B.C. One of the earliest known
  Ionic Buildings of the Acropolis.

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Modern Greek Architecture

• Sill - boundary frame, used for resting place for
  the the main upright support.
• Lintel - Upper duplicate of the sill.
• Truss basis of the roof triangular frame from
  wall to wall.
• Purlins roof supports that run from the lintel
  to the peak of the roof.