# Classical Architecture

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Category: Architecture
Slides: 30
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:17:22.394Z
Tags: architecture, classical

## Summary

For two and a half millennia, "to build well" in the West has meant something close to: build the way the Greeks and Romans built. The argument is not yet over. Key sections include: Classical Architecture.; Opening The longest argument.; Chapter I The Doric order.; Chapter II The Ionic order.; Chapter III The Corinthian order.; Chapter IV The Parthenon.; Chapter V Erechtheion and Caryatids.; Chapter VI Stoa, agora, theatre.; Chapter VII The Hellenistic turn.; Chapter VIII The Roman concrete revolution..

## Slide Outline

1. Classical Architecture.
2. Opening The longest argument.
3. Chapter I The Doric order.
4. Chapter II The Ionic order.
5. Chapter III The Corinthian order.
6. Chapter IV The Parthenon.
7. Chapter V Erechtheion and Caryatids.
8. Chapter VI Stoa, agora, theatre.
9. Chapter VII The Hellenistic turn.
10. Chapter VIII The Roman concrete revolution.
11. Chapter IX Arch, vault, dome.
12. Chapter X The Pantheon.
13. Chapter XI Colosseum.
14. Chapter XII The Roman Forum.
15. Chapter XIII Pompeii and the house.
16. Chapter XIV Vitruvius.
17. Chapter XV Hadrian's villa.
18. Chapter XVI The bath as social space.
19. Chapter XVII Aqueducts, roads, bridges.
20. Chapter XVIII Quotation.
21. Chapter XIX Late antiquity and the basilica.
22. Chapter XX Hagia Sophia.
23. Chapter XXI The triumphal arch.
24. Chapter XXII Polychromy.
25. Chapter XXIII Proportion and the human body.
26. Chapter XXIV The empire abroad.
27. Chapter XXV For the shelf.
28. Chapter XXVI Watch & read.
29. Chapter XXVII The classical, still.
30. Colophon

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