Parthenon

Parthenon

448-432 BCE

1775

Iktinos

Kallikrates

Phidias

Greek

plans (orthographic projections)

Greece (nation)

Athens (inhabited place)

High Classical

floor plans

temples (buildings)

Plan of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. "Dimensions of the temple at the top step are 30.9 m x 69.5 m (101 x 228 ft). The steps were 508 mm (20 in) high, "too high to use, so intermediate steps were provided at the centre of each of the short sides. The eastern room was 29.8 m long by 19.2 m wide (98 ft x 63 ft), with internal Doric colonnades in two tier, structurally necessary to support the roof timbers. On the exterior, the Doric columns measure 1.9 m (6ft 2in) in diameter and are 10.4 m (34ft 3in) high, approximately 5 1/2 times the diameter. The corner columns are slightly larger in diameter, with their spacing reduced to make it possible for the frieze to conform to the rule that it must terminate with a triglyph. The stylobate has an upward curvature towards its centre of 60 mm (2 3/8 in) on the east and west ends, and of 110 mm (4 5/16 in) on the sides,"--Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture.

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