Friday, November 23, 2007

Greek Architecture




The greeks houses passed through many stages. first they where small with wooden walls. then they start building them bigger with stone walls. Then they build paved roads, bridges and dams. Then they pass to temples for gods.



They have three main columns. The Doric, Ionic and the Corinthian.



The rich and pour people houses where very different. Both where constructed with mud bricks ans stone, but the main difference was that rich people house was bigger, with more rooms and had a courtyard in the middle of the house.



The first structures where very simple they where mostly circular and rectangular shaped. They used mud bricks and they only had one room, very rarely two rooms.



Some of the common materials of Greek architecture where wood, and baked bricks, limestone and marble, terracotta, and metals. Specially bronze.

By: Alejandro Arango
Daniel Gómez