DORIC ORDER

Pronounced features of both Greek and Roman versions of the Doric order are the alternating
trabeated) construction. They also served to "organize" rainwater runoff from above.

GREEK DORIC ORDER

ROMAN DORIC ORDER

ATHENS ACADEMY IN GREECE.

IONIC ORDER
Ionic columns are most often fluted. After a little early experimentation, the number
of hollow flutes in the shaft settled at 24.

This standardization kept the fluting in a familiar proportion to the diameter of the
column at any scale, even when the height of the column was exaggerated. Roman
fluting leaves a little of the column surface between each hollow; Greek fluting runs
out to a knife edge that was easily scarred.

Roman and Renaissance practice condensed the height of the entablature by

reducing the proportions of the architrave, which made the frieze more prominen

A triglyph is centered above every column, with another (or sometimes two) between columns,
though the Greeks felt that the corner triglyph should form the corner of the entablature,
creating an inharmonious mismatch with the supporting column. The spaces between the
triglyphs are the "metopes". They may be left plain, or they may be carved in low relief.

In the Roman Doric version, the height of the entablature has been reduced. The endmost
triglyph is centered over the column rather than occupying the corner of the architrave. The
columns are slightly less robust in their proportions. Below their caps, an astragal molding
encircles the column like a ring. plinths.

In the Roman Doric mode, columns are not invariably fluted. Since the Romans dropped the
request of the triglyph covered corner, now both columns and triglyphs could be arranged in
equidistant order again and well centered together. The architrave corner needed to be left
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GREEK IONIC ORDER

ROMAN IONIC ORDER

CORINTHIAN ORDER
The Corinthian order is named for the Greek city-state of Corinth, to which it was
connected in the period. Its earliest use can be traced back to the Late Classical Period
(430-323 BC).

GREEK CORINTHIAN ORDER

ROMAN CORINTHIAN ORDER

The earlist Corinthian capital was found in Bassae, dated at 427 BC. It is sometimes called
the feminine order because it is on the top level of the Colosseum and holding up the
least weight, and also has the slenderest ratio of thickness to height. Height to width ratio
is about 10:1.

In roman order Proportion is a defining characteristic of the Corinthian order: the

"coherent integration of dimensions and ratios in accordance with the principles ofabacus
upon the capital has concave sides to conform to the out scrolling corners of the capital,
and it may have a rosette at the center of each side.

DORIC ORDER
Pronounced features of both Greek and Roman versions of the Doric order are the alternating
trabeated) construction. They also served to "organize" rainwater runoff from above.

GREEK DORIC ORDER

PARTHENON , ATHENS

ROMAN DORIC ORDER

TEMPIETTO, ROME

A triglyph is centered above every column, with another (or sometimes two) between columns,
though the Greeks felt that the corner triglyph should form the corner of the entablature,
creating an inharmonious mismatch with the supporting column. The spaces between the
triglyphs are the "metopes". They may be left plain, or they may be carved in low relief.

In the Roman Doric version, the height of the entablature has been reduced. The endmost
triglyph is centered over the column rather than occupying the corner of the architrave. The
columns are slightly less robust in their proportions. Below their caps, an astragal molding
encircles the column like a ring. plinths.

In the Roman Doric mode, columns are not invariably fluted. Since the Romans dropped the
request of the triglyph covered corner, now both columns and triglyphs could be arranged in
equidistant order again and well centered together. The architrave corner needed to be left
blank

IONIC ORDER
Ionic columns are most often fluted. After a little early experimentation, the number
of hollow flutes in the shaft settled at 24.

This standardization kept the fluting in a familiar proportion to the diameter of the
column at any scale, even when the height of the column was exaggerated. Roman
fluting leaves a little of the column surface between each hollow; Greek fluting runs
out to a knife edge that was easily scarred.

Roman and Renaissance practice condensed the height of the entablature by

reducing the proportions of the architrave, which made the frieze more prominen

GREEK IONIC ORDER

ATHENS ACADEMY,
ATHENS

ROMAN IONIC ORDER ALBANY'S U.S. COURTHOUSE

CORINTHIAN ORDER
The Corinthian order is named for the Greek city-state of Corinth, to which it was
connected in the period. Its earliest use can be traced back to the Late Classical Period
(430-323 BC).

GREEK CORINTHIAN ORDER TEMPLE OF ZEUS,ATHENS ROMAN CORINTHIAN ORDERANCIENT THEEATREIN

PHILIPPOPOLIS

The earlist Corinthian capital was found in Bassae, dated at 427 BC. It is sometimes called
the feminine order because it is on the top level of the Colosseum and holding up the
least weight, and also has the slenderest ratio of thickness to height. Height to width ratio
is about 10:1.

In roman order Proportion is a defining characteristic of the Corinthian order: the

"coherent integration of dimensions and ratios in accordance with the principles ofabacus
upon the capital has concave sides to conform to the out scrolling corners of the capital,
and it may have a rosette at the center of each side.