ARC 111 Chapter 4: Chapter 4

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Architecture
• Course: ARC 111
• Professor: Andrew Manson

Document Summary

In classical architecture a column consists of a base, a shaft, and a capital), entablatures, and pediments. This style has been revived by a variety of cultures. It eventually came to represent two contradictory political ideas: greek democracy and roman. Hellenistic tyrannies: the greek city, or polis (greek word for city and its territory), gave birth to this style and that policy must be consensual and requires public debate. The agora, stoa (a long, roofed portico with columns along the front and a wall at the back, used for public life in ancient greece), council house, and hillside theater enabled this exchange. Even the temple was a product of dialogue: after the decline of democratic athens, greek architects continued to develop the classical style for. Alexander the great was a huge proponent of this style and used it to convert cultures to.