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  2. Ancient Greek architecture - Wikipedia

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    The columns are wider at the base than at the top, tapering with an outward curve known as entasis. Each column has a capital of two parts, the upper, on which rests the lintels, being square and called the abacus. The part of the capital that rises from the column itself is called the echinus.

  3. Doric order - Wikipedia

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    The Doric order is one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric is most easily recognized by the simple circular capitals at the top of the columns. Originating in the western Doric region of Greece, it is the earliest and, in its essence, the ...

  4. Classical order - Wikipedia

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    Classical order. Greek, "Etruscan" and Roman orders, with stylobate and pediment. An order in architecture is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions, regulated by the office that each part has to perform. [1] Coming down to the present from Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman civilization, the architectural orders ...

  5. Erechtheion - Wikipedia

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    The western end of the naos has three entrances. On the north of the western naos is a great door and step leading to the lower Ionic prostyle, dipteral tetrastyle porch of six columns, with a distinctive double anta at the north-west corner. [46] Next to this porch is an outside terrace and steps leading to the east porch.

  6. American Foursquare - Wikipedia

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    A wood-frame American Foursquare house in Minnesota with dormer windows on each side and a large front porch Wegeforth-Wucher house, Burlingame, San Diego. The American Foursquare (also American Four Square or American 4 Square) is an American house vernacular under the Arts and Crafts style popular from the mid-1890s to the late 1930s.

  7. Column - Wikipedia

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    Column of the Gordon Monument in Waterloo. A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member. The term column applies especially to a large round support ...

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