Greek Architecture

The first settlers of the Greek civilizations built very basic structures. "The houses were mainly built with a circular, oval, apsidal, or rectangular shape." Most of the home in Greece had one room, not very often would one find a house with two rooms. These Structures were made with mud bricks, there would be stone and reeds in the mud of their buildings. source

Greek Architecture( google book source) like most everything deluded over the years. When people from Minoan come to Greece, they built houses with many rooms. However, at this time they didn't build public places. In the classic Greek architecture period they are made out of three orders that you mostly find in the temples. The three orders are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. Also, they are known for their columns style. link

The most of Buildings that is best known is the Parthenon and the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, are Doric. "the Greek temple has always been seen as fundamentally distinct from and superior to most other early religious types, partly because of the simplicity of its form, partly because of the exquisite refinement of the best examples, and partly because it is seen to reflect the emergence in Greece of a rational, philosophical approach to art that replaced earlier belief systems. " source


The Greeks had many thing made with Marble. However, they didn't really start to use marble until the 5th cent. B.C. "In addition to temples, the Greeks also built a number of other kinds of structures. Their public spaces included monumental tombs; agoras , in ancient Greece, the public square or marketplace of a city, or public meeting places; stoas stoa, in ancient Greek architecture, an extended, roofed colonnade on a street or square...... Click the link for more information. , or colonnaded shelters; stadiums stadium, racecourse in Greek cities where footraces and other athletic contests took place. Palaestrae, or gymnasiums for athletic training; propylaea, or entrance gateways to cities; and amphitheaters. " The As Greece grew the people built more and more public buildings source

"The Greek culture had a huge impact on on the history of the world. There is something Greek in almost everything, especially in the world's architecture." They have repeated the architecture over and over in many buildings. The white house of the USA is from the basic Greek Architecture.