Terminology
4 Terminology - Classical
The starting point for any study of classical architecture are Ancient Greece and Roman orders: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. The classical buildings are put together as formal structures by using the formal canon, the rules of composition. It means that in classical architecture elements always appear in well-determined sets governed by particular fixed relations. Although the origins of the classical architecture come from Ancient Greece, they were developed by Roman architecture and finally regularised by Renaissance writers.
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