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Classical Language

Drawings

1. Make pencil line drawings that include all elements. (As you might imagine, one drawing can include many elements.)
2. Keep and organize all your drawings, to be included in your drawing portfolio.
3. Use study drawings to prepare for test (below) and other related assignments.

Test

1. There will be an in-class test on this material.
2. Hand in your drawings at the time of the test. They will be returend so you can include them in your portfolio.

References

The Illustrated Glossary of Classical Architecture is based on Ware's The American Vignola: a guide to the making of classical architecture.

• Wikipedia
  • Classical Orders
  • Classical America
    • Tuscan, illustration (PDF file)
    • Doric, illustration (PDF file)
    • Ionic, illustration (PDF file)
    • Corinthian, illustration (PDF file)
    • Composite, illustration (PDF file)
  • Glossary of architecture
• The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America
  • Moulding - Geometry (and PDF file of illustrations)
• Vitruvius Americanus: Colonial Newport in the Palladian Tradition, [090118: some broken links.] Redwood Library, Newport, RI
• Semes, Steven W. The Architecture of the Classical Interior. New York. W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 (limited preview in Google Books)
• Tzonis, Alexander and Liane Lefaivre. Classical architecture: the poetics of order. MUT Press, 1999. (limited preview in Google books)
• Gromort, Georges.The Elements of Classical Architecture, W.W. Norton and Co., 2001 (limited preview in Google books)
• Ware, William R. The American Vignola: a guide to the making of classical architecture. Dover Publications. 1994 (limited preview in Google books)

Elements

Order

• Tuscan (Wikipedia; Classicist)
• Doric (Wikipedia; Classicist)
• Ionic (Wikipedia; Classicist)
• Corinthian (Wikipedia; Classicist)
• Composite - Greek and Roman forms (Wikipedia; Classicist)

Form

• column (Wikipedia)
• collonade (Wikipedia)
• portico (Wikipedia)
• arch (Wikipedia; note masonry arch drawing)
• arcade (Wikipedia)
• wall (Wikipedia)
• bay (Wikipedia)
• architrave (Wikipedia)
• epistyle (see architrave)
• pier (Wikipedia; also a 'square' column)
• pilaster (Wikipedia)
• lintel (Wikipedia)
• vault (Wikipedia)

Entablature (Wikipedia)

Cornice (Wikipedia; adn Doric order labeled)

• crown molding (Wikipedia)
• cymatium (Wikipedia)
• corona, soffit (Wikipedia)
• bed-mould (bed moulding) (Wikipedia)
• dentil (Wikipedia)
• mutule (glossary Wikipedia)
• guttae (Wikipedia)
• modillions (Wikipedia)

Frieze (Wikipedia)

• fascia (Wikipedia)
• trigylph (Wikipedia)
• metope (Wikipedia)
• regula guttae (Wikipedia)
• pulvinated - convex (Wikipedia)

Architrave (Wikipedia)

• taenia (Wikipedia)
• regula guttae

Capital (Wikipedia)

• abacus (Wikipedia)
• echinus (see molding; for origin as 'sea urchin' fom)
• necking (Wikipedia)
• bell
  
• volutes
• eye
• baluster
• acanthus
• caulicolus
• button
• bud
• bell
• lip
• fleuron

Column (Wikipedia)

• astragal
• shaft
• cincture
• entasis
• fluting

Base

• base mould
• torus
• plinth

Pedestal (Wikipedia)

• cap: corona, bed moulding
• base: base mould, plinth
• stylobate
• baluster: sleeve, belly, double (turned), half (flush)
• rail: upper, lower
• die

Pediments (Wikipedia)

• curved
• raking
• broken
• cornice
• tympanium

Columns (Wikipedia)

• coupled
• intercolonation
• in antis
• superposition
• string courses

Arches (Wikipedia; note masonry arch drawing)

• architrave
• arch
• intrados
• cymatium
• impost
• elliptical
• Palladian
• epistyle
• voussoirs
• archivolt
• stilting
• abutment
• segmental
• arcade
• string-course
• keystone
• extrados
• spandrel
• plinth
• superposition

Vault

• barrel
• cylindrical
• groined
• cloistered

Mouldings (Wikipedia)

• ovolo: torus, 3/4 round, quirked, Venetian
• cyma recta, quirked
• beak
• congé
• cavetto: scotia, 3/4 hollow
• cyma reversa, quirked
• splay faces
• cymatium
• fillet: sunk, raised
• bead: 3/4, reeds
• fascia (face)