HISTORY Ancient Greece

GREEK TEMPLES - stone made to look like timber
cella/maos and ronaos closed to priests
architecture is COMPLETE AROUND
achitecture - specific to people s relationship to GOD (understandong what is celebrated through forms of atchitecture)

AGORA, Morgantina, Sicity, 5th- 3rd C BC -market place and meeting place of citizents of greek city, heart of a city. the police - heart of the coty (city itself as a physical place and that specific group of people)
-exchange place. exchange of political ideas and goods

STOA, Morgantina, SIcity -

theatre ARYKANDA, Turkey - establishing a relationship with the Gods again, not with the performer.
The performance is about the faith of the human being and space becomes a reflection of policics, sexuality, soul and political views of the day.

STADIUM -
olympics - greeks found sense of sharing cultural views.
what can we do in this world to aurvive it and survive it well

Maison Carre, Nimes, France - fresh as a daisy :) ROMAN TEMPLE
inside the cty and RAISED UP
opposite to GREEK temples, on a PRIVILEDGED SPOT, on a hill or something.

ROMAN TEMPLES.- exhibition in an urban environmenmt
similar features to the greeks but much more ELASTIC

AMPHITHEATRE, Nimes, France
the arch - roman characyteristic of an amphitheatre. you can put in anywthere you want
architecture comes from the technical art of constructing out of wood but romans changed that with arches! you wouldn t think of doing a wooden arch. So are the origins of architecture in WOOD or STONE? the arch - powerful technology imn producing architecture, becomes symbolic of VICTORY  and WALL. it allows you to go anywhere, anytime so you can place the building anywhere.

romans - observing other architectures and making them their own

PANTHEON, Rome - biggest dome in the world for a long period of time.
concrete. produced the dome with it with the occulus in the centre.

PONT DU GARD, Nimes, France
clean water - essential to build a city.
for greeks there was a limit to how big their cities could grow proportional to clear water.
they could give porple that through bringing the water inside the city from elsewhere. this is what Pont du Gard does.

FORUM = eq of greek Agora for Romans
ROMAN CITY - expansion through military power

HADRIAN'S VILLA, Trivoli, Rome - celebration of the arch
the roman emperor placed all architectural elements so that the emperor has command of the universe. very different form greeks. the emperor understands himself as the ruler of the universe.
distinct relationship to landscape is what made ROMAN ARCHITECTURE different from the rest.