Doric

ancient monuments does not spare the time, but they continue to surprise many generations of its harmonious forms.Festive and even more grandiose Doric style, so beloved by the architects of Greece and Rome, today's modern streets is virtually absent, but still admirable.It was created by ancient architects who worked hand spectacular beauty.

At the turn of the 6th century BC architecture formed two amazing beauty of artistic direction.It Ionic and Doric style.Day after day, the architects sought to help builders perfected proportions and forms that are checked on the magnificent temples and palaces built.They tried to ensure that the Doric looked perfectly, because it was the basis of the architecture of the time.The final formation of the style ended about 600 BC.

initially prevailed in ancient Greece built a rectangular shape and the materials used for construction were unstable clay and reeds.In place of such a short-lived components for the construction of dwellings it stronger, decorated with new decoration and sculpture temple construction.

endless desire for monumentality of ancient architects and creation of ideal proportions in buildings contributed to the formation of new, who subsequently became a classic style.The most important of all - the Roman and Greek Doric.Roman order was carried out with Mutulu and teeth-dentil.

talk about the differences, you will notice that the classical Doric columns missing base or whether it was carried out with a strong thinning.The barrel is a vertical grooves, called flutes.They are tightly adjacent to each other and there was no familiar path therebetween.In this style of flute performed with very sharp edges and it was not deep.

Dorian capital - is a round cushion (echinus) and a thick square slab (abacus).On top of the columns, capitals, bear the main load are above details.Doric capital has a feature expressed that she treated Ehin Ionica and is under the shelf abaca heels, which is decorated with exquisite designs.

entablature consists of architrave, frieze and cornice.Ehin - a beanbag curved profile and a square abacus and friezes, in turn, is divided into triglyphs and metopes horizontal.Unique Doric was developed in the architecture of ancient Greece.This is where the master began to build more durable stone temples, using data decoration.One of these buildings is the Greek temple of Artemis in Corfu.

greatest flowering Doric received VI-V centuries.BC, it is the reign of perfect forms and classics.This style is a jewel, and emphasized the majesty and monumentality of the composition of buildings at that time, their beauty and unique architecture.A typical and oldest Doric temple is located in Greece, is the famous Temple of Hera in Olympia.His age - VII century.BC.e.It was built in a scenic area on the southern slopes of the hill crowns.

build a temple to all the rules of early Doric architecture with distinct orientation from east to west, has a slightly elongated shape.Periptera has a certain number of columns.The special flavor gives them what they are different in the thread, the proportions and the smallest detail.They were originally made of wood, but later they gradually began to replace the stone.This occurred over a significant period of time, almost from ancient times to the Roman period, and this, in turn, was reflected in the thread, which also have been changed, depending on trends in the development of architectural styles.