Exploring the ruins: Greek architecture

Hello everyone! For this week’s reading in our History of Architecture class we learned about the Ancient Greek Architecture and the city’s historical development in creating their buildings. And this summer I had a visit to Greece to travel and I took some photograps of the places that we visited. One of the places that I really enjoyed visiting was the Acropolis of Athens.

In our this week’s lecture one of the parts that we focused mainly on was the temples. As it’s said in our reading ”Their design is shown off by wrapping its volume with beautifully crafted colums, creating a play of light and shade against the solid inner core.” Here are some of the photograps that I took from the Acropolis in Athens:

 

This one is Erechtheum; the one that I’ve like the most. It’s Ionic style, on the north side of the Acropolis. It was built between 421 and 407 BC. The name is derived from a shrine dedicated to the Greek hero Erichthonius. The porch is supported by six female figures known as the Caryatids.

 

 

 

Second is the Partenon:

The construction of the Parthenon started in in 447 BC, replacing and older temple that was destroyed by the Persians, and completed in 432 BC. The purpose of the Parthenon was to house a massive statue of Athena Parthenos made from ivory, silver and gold. It is doric style.

(sorry about the sun! we literally took those pictures without having any idea what the photographs will look like cause the sun was making it impossible to see the screen)

Here are some nicer photograps to make up for it 🙂

 

Here is Temple of Hephaestus:

This one is the best-preserved Greek temple in the world (and it was in restoration while we were visiting) It was built in the 5th century BC.  It was dedicated to Hephaestos, the god of metal working. was designed by Ictinus, one of the architects who also worked on the Parthenon. (doric style)

 

 

 

Here is an edit that I’ve made because it’s impossible to remove the people out of the pictures. The human figures are always nice to have in architectural photography but when the count of them or their location is not in our control the photograpy kind of gets out of our control too. So here, instead of trying to remove the people I tried to add their movement into the picture. The columns are Ionic style btw

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for visiting! I’d love to share more of historical places that I’ve visited in time 🙂