Doric Order,

Jacques Paul

Doric Order 

Doric order  

 It is the first and simplest of the classical order. The classical order is generally divided into three categories. The Doric, the Ionic and the Corinthian. The term Doric is used to differentiate the époque of edge stone made of post and lintel.

The Doric order has been used for over twenty-five hundred   years. I personally think that it is just a fancy dressing of a basic ancient system.

The Doric system is a style of architecture developed by the Dorian Greek between 750 and 480 BC. It is mostly use in temple. 

Starting from top to bottom, the first part of the building is call the pediment, which is a triangle roof sometime full with sculptures is basically a sort of gable roof. 

 Fallow by the entablature subdivided into three parts.  The top is called the cornice, the middle frieze and the bottom architrave.

 The frieze is decorated in specific ways using try glyphs, (pattern of three marks) fallow by metopes, a square often fill with sculptures. The architrave is a sort of slab.

 The capital is the part that supports the entablature.

Finally the Shaft is like a column. The shaft is divided into pieces call drum that is going to assemble. The body of the shaft has some vertical line call fluting to create a nice vertical pattern. The bottom of the shaft has no decorative element. The column goes straight into the floor, there is no molding to make a transition 

Why passing from stone hinge to Classical order?                                                                                                                                                                   Visual effect. The decorative effect of the classical orders is a clear transition in the human world. The human is clearly award of proportion; structure, organization and order.in the classical order the Greeks try to emphasis verticality.

The top part of the shaft is 1/3 size of the of the bottom part that way it make it look taller from a human perspective. It gives the building a sense of lividness.

The method used, was to pill up a series of drums on top of one and other. There is a hole in the middle of each drum. A wood stick was use to stabilize them and keep them aligned. We should think of the Greek method of construction as a gigantic stone puzzle.

 Now a day architect still continue to use the classical shape of the Doric column, either just as a column itself, something as a building conception like the Chicago tribune by Paul Gerhardt or as a monument like the prison shift martyrs monument.

 One of most famous example of the Doric order is the parthenon. Some piece of it is expose in the British museum. It reveals the building scale. Any small piece is time and time bigger then any human .

 Work cited:

Joseph P Kewert "The dancing column" page 18, 19 , 20, 21, 22,23. oct 7, 2016

George  Gromort " The Elements of classical Architecture" Page 23 to 37. oct 7 2016