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This is a list of notable Greek architects in alphabetical order: Modern Greece. A–Z ... List of architects; List of Greeks This page was last edited on 29 ...
Pages in category "Ancient Greek architects" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aelius Nicon;
21st-century Greek architects (4 P)-Architects from Athens (23 P) * Ancient Greek architects (32 P) Byzantine architects (8 P) + Greek women architects (9 P) U.
Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC.
Several architects occur in worldwide mythology, including Daedalus, builder of the Labyrinth, in Greek myth. In the Bible, Nimrod is considered the creator of the Tower of Babel, and King Solomon built Solomon's Temple with the assistance of the architect Hiram. In Hinduism, the palaces of the gods were built by the architect and artisan ...
The first manager of the project was the architect Charalambos Sfaellos (from 1950 to 1958) and from 1957 the buildings were designed by a team under Aris Konstantinidis. Famous foreign architects who have also designed buildings in Greece during the 20th and 21st century, include Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen and Mario Botta.
Ancient Greek architects (32 P) B. Ancient Greek buildings and structures (8 C, 39 P) F. Ancient Greek fortifications (1 C, 5 P) G. Greek Revival architecture (8 C, 8 P)
The Corinthian order (Greek: Κορινθιακὸς ῥυθμός, Korinthiakós rythmós; Latin: Ordo Corinthius) is the last developed and most ornate of the three principal classical orders of Ancient Greek architecture and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric order, which was the earliest, followed by the Ionic order. In Ancient ...