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5 CLASSICAL ORDERS OF

ARCHITECTURE
AR. MIKKA ANGELA T. MENDOZA, UAP
CEA-ARCH, CIT-UNIVERSITY
DORIC

THE OLDEST AND SIMPLEST OF THE FIVE CLASSICAL ORDERS,


DEVELOPED IN GREECE IN THE 7TH CENTURY BCE AND LATER
IMITATED BY THE ROMAN, CHARACTERIZED BY A FLUTED
COLUMN HAVING NO BASE, A PLAIN CUSHION-SHAPED
CAPITAL SUPPORTING A SQUARE ABACUS, AND AN
ENTABLATURE CONSISTING OF A PLAIN ARCHITRAVE, A FRIEZE
OF TRIGLYPHS AND METOPES, AND A CORNICE, THE CORONA
OF WHICH HAS MUTULES ON ITS SOFFIT.

IN THE ROMAN DORIC ORDER, THE COLUMNS ARE MORE


SLENDER AND USUALLY HAVE BASES, THE CHANNELING IS
SOMETIMES ALTERED OR OMITTED, AND THE CAPITAL CONSISTS
OF A BANDLIKE NECKING, AN ECHINUS, AND A MOLDED
ABACUS.
DENTILS
IONIC

A CLASSICAL ORDER THAT DEVELOPED IN THE GREEK


COLONIES OF ASIA MINOR IN THE 6TH CENTURY BCE,
CHARACTERIZED ESP. BY THE SPIRAL VOLUTES OF ITS CAPITAL.
THE FLUTED COLUMNS TYPICALLY HAD MOLDED BASES AND
SUPPORTED AN ENTABLATURE CONSISTING OF AN ARCHITRAVE
OF THREE FASCIAS, A RICHLY ORNAMENTED FRIEZE, AND A
CORNICE CORBELED OUT ON EGG-AND-DART AND DENTIL
MOLDINGS. ROMAN AND RENAISSANCE EXAMPLES ARE OFTEN
MORE ELABORATE, AND USUALLY SET THE VOLUTES OF THE
CAPITALS 45DEG TO THE ARCHITRAVE.
CORINTHIAN

THE MOST ORNATE OF THE FIVE CLASSICAL ORDERS,


DEVELOPED BY THE GREEKS IN THE 4TH CENTURY BCE BUT MORE
EXTENSIVELY IN ROMAN ARCHITECTURE, SIMILAR IN MOST
RESPECTS TO THE IONIC BUT USUALLY OF SLENDERER
PROPORTIONS AND CHARACTERIZED ESP. BY A DEEP BELL-
SHAPED CAPITAL DECORATED WITH ACANTHUS LEAVES AND
AN ABACUS WITH CONCAVE SIDES.
TUSCAN

A CLASSICAL ORDER OF ROMAN ORIGIN, BASICALLY A


SIMPLIFIED ROMAN DORIC CHARACTERIZED BY AN UNFLUTED
COLUMN AND A PLAIN BASE, CAPITAL, AND ENTABLATURE
HAVING NO DECORATION OTHER THAN MOLDINGS
COMPOSITE

ONE OF THE FIVE CLASSICAL ORDERS, POPULAR ESP. SINCE THE


BEGINNING OF THE RENAISSANCE BUT INVENTED BY THE
ANCIENT ROMANS, IN WHICH THE CORINTHIAN ORDER IS
MODIFIED BY SUPERIMPOSING FOUR DIAGONALLY SET IONIC
VOLUTES ON A BELL OF CORINTHIAN ACANTHUS LEAVES.
PARTHENON
TEMPLE OF LEAH
TEMPLE OF ATHENA NIKE, ATHENS,
GREECE
ST. PETER’S SQUARE, VATICAN
ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA

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