Essays on Ancient Greek Architecture

The development of modern artistry and architectural works is an inspiration drawn from the ancient architectural designs and artistic works. It is important to understand the foundation of the architecture that dominated the 19th century towards the 20th century. The era was dominated by classical arts that tended to shape the events of the time. Then later the romantic arts emerged as repulsion to the classical ideology of artistry (David 15-23). It is essential in the American history that certain types of architecture influence the modern day designs that still have many structures that portray or completely use this ...

Introduction

We normally encounter and use the word culture severally in different contexts. We attend to cultural programs, talk about the cultural differences, read about danger of cults, and cultivate bad or good habits. There are various definitions of culture. Culture refers to cumulative deposit of experience, knowledge, values, attitudes, beliefs, religion, and notions of time, hierarchies, meanings, spatial relations, roles, possessions, and material objects that are acquired by individuals in the course of generations by these individuals and their groups striving. In its broadest sense it is referred to as a cultivated behavior meaning that, it is the totality of ...

Ancient Greek Architecture is dated from around 600 BC to the 1st Century AD. The temples, theatres, gateways, tombs, stadiums and other buildings built around this time in the areas under the Greek empire and later, the Hellenic lands constitute the bulk of ancient Greek architecture. This report is a look at some of the best work of that time, the technical and architectural commentary on these structures and the present day relevance of these architectural marvels. Among all, the correctness and strictness of the Greek architectural structures are their most distinctive characteristics. Unlike architectural styles of the past ...