GREEK ARCHITECTURE
- COUNTRY WITH FEW NATURAL RESOURCES AND IS SURROUNDED BY WATER
- MOUNTAIN RANGES DIVIDES GREECE INTO MANY SMALL VALLEYS
GREEK ARCHITECTURE CHA RACTERISTICS
THREE PERIODS
AEGEAN – LARGEST CITY: KNOSSOS
- LOW PITCH OR FLAT ROOF ON MULTI STOREY STRUCTURES
- STAIRWAYS WERE DEVELOPED
- MEGARON (HOUSES) AND PALACES
- ROUGH AD MASSIVE (CYCLOPEAN WALLS)
HELLENIC – SIMPLICITY AND HARMONY, PURITY OF LINES, PERFECTION OF
PROPORTIONS
- CARPENTRY IN MARBLE
- CHIEF BUILDING TYPE (TEMPLES) BUILT TOWARDS THE RISING SUN, EAST
HELLENISTIC – SYMMETRICAL AND ORDERLY
- CIVIL STRUCTURES
BUILDING MATERIALS – STONE,
TIMBER AND TERRA COTTA
RESIDENCES
 MADE OF DRIED MUD –
BRICKS WITH POTTERY
ROOF TILES
 FOR THE AFFLUENT:
LARGE WITH SEVERAL
ROOMS ARRANGED
AROUND A COURTYARD;
DIVIDED INTO MEN’S AND
WOMENS SECTIONS.
 FOR THE POOR: ONE TO THREE ROOMS; COOKING DONE OUTSIDE.
ARCHITECTURAL EXAMPLES
GATE OF LIONS (MYCENAE)
 USE OF CORBELLED
ARCH AND POST &
LINTEL
 MOST ANCIENT
STONE SCULPTURE
IN EUROPE (13TH
CENTURY)
 RELIEF SCULPTURE
OF TWO LIONESSES
IN A HERALDIC POSE
TOMBS
 THOLOS
- A STONE VAULTED
CONSTRUCTION
- OLD FASHIONED
BEEHIVE
- CONSIST OF A LONG
PASSAGE KNOWN AS
DROMOS WAY TO
DOMED CHAMBER
 ROCK-CUT OR
CHAMBER TOMB
- RECTANGULAR
CHAMBER CUT W/IN
THE SLOPE HILL SIDE
APPROACHED BY
DROMOS
ARCHITECTURAL EXAMPLES
 ACROPOLIS
- CITY ON THE HEIGHT
- CITY STRONGHOLD
- HIGHER GROUND THAN
URBAN FABRIC
 AGORA
- CIVIC SQUARE, SQUARE
CITY OR MARKET PLACE
- CENTER OF GREEKS
POLITICAL BUSINESS AND
ECONOMIC LIFE
 GYMNASIUM
- A PLACE FOR PHYSICAL
EXERCISE
 PROPYLAEA
- ENTRANCE GATEWAYS OF
THE GREEKS
- MARKED THE APPROACH
TO THE SACRED ENCLOSURE
IN MANY CITIES
 STADIUM
- FOOT RACE COURSE
 STOA
- COVERED WALKWAYS OR
PLOTICOS
- COMMONLY FOR PUBLIC
 THEATER
- AN OPEN AIR
STRUCTURE
- CONSISTED OF
ORCHESTRA
- AUDITORIUM
- SLOPE OF HILLSIDE,
NEAR CITY
 TEMPLES
1. PARTHENON
- RECTANGULAR IN PLAN
- SURROUNDED BY
COLUMNS
PARTS
 NAOS – PRINCIPAL
CHAMBER
 PRONAOS – IN FRONT OF
NAOS
 EPINAOS – BEHIND THE
NAOS , OPISTHODOMUS
INTERCOLUMNIATION
TERMINLOGIES
ATLAS – MALE FIGURE CARRYING THE WORLD IN KNEELING POSITION
BOULEUTERION – COUNCIL
HOUSE, COVERED MEETING
PLACE, ELECTED COUNCILS
CANEPHORAE – FEMALE
FIGURE SUPPORT CARRYING A
BASKET ON HER HEAD
CARYATIDS – SCULPTURED
FEMA LE FIGURES USED AS
COLUMNS
HIPPODROME - PLAN SIMILAR
TO STADIUM BUT LONGER
FOR HORSE AND CHARIOT
RACING
ODEION – A THEATER
BUILDING USED MAINLY BY
MUSICIANS
ODEON OF HERODES ATICUS
SEATING CAPACITY: 5000