GREECE

1. Introduction
2. Temples
3. Public Buildings
4. Town planning
Mount Olympus & Greek Gods
Construction & Materials Art & Decoration

Stone & Marble

Construction Tools
Greek Orders
 Art of Proportion Orders: Doric , Ionic & Corinthian

Parthenon Golden Ratio

(secret of beauty)
 Temples
Basic Body of the Temple:
Colonnade
Stylobate
Pronaos
Naos
Ophisthodomos

Plan development
TEMPLES
 Acropolis
The highest point above
any major Greek city.

• geometry & unity

• stone & marble

Acropolis of the city Athena

Propylaea
Temple of Athena Nike
Temple of Parthenon
Temple of Erechteum
Propylaea – entrance gate
Entrance Gate &
Temple of Athena
Nike

• Central area 25mx8m

• 6 Doric Columns from
both sides & 6 Ionic
Columns along the main
axis

One of the earliest

art museums
Temple of Parthenon

The approach was from the west

side (opisthodomos side)
 Temple of Erechteum

Temple is build in
two levels with
difference of 3m

Ionic Order & 6 Caryatids

PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Unroofed structures - Theaters
• auditorium
• orchestra
• parodos
• skene
• proskenion

Greek theaters were built using

natural slope of hillside
Seats were built in 2 slopes: lower
& steeper
Roofed structures – Assembly Halls
Telesterion 6th BC Hall in Priene 4th BC
TOWN PLANNING
City of Priene 4th c. City grid plan was used
6 main streets running east-west
15 secondary roads running north-south

City of Miletus 5th & 4th C.

first city planner Hippodamus discovered
the method of dividing cities

City of Troy (??B.C.)

Agora – center of a Greek city

Stoa – offices & shops

Greek Houses
Let us summarize……

• Materials & Building Techniques 

• Basic Body of a Temple 
Greek Orders 
• Acropolis of Athene 
• Propylaea
• Parthenon 
• Erecteum 
• Public Buildings 
• Theaters 
• Assembly Hall 
• Agora 
• Town Planning 