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Ancient architectural styles - useful sources for our today's architecture design.
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Part one: research about Parthenon and Pantheon Parthenon and Pantheon are two typical ancient European architectures, according to contrast the differences of the two architectural styles, we can obtain the common knowledge about ancient European architecture's evolution. The view of Parthenon from plan, it is a rectangle. The Parthenon is basically a Doric temple with eight rows of Doric columns along the back and front of the building, The six columns in the center are slightly smaller than the outer ones. The pediment was created when Greek temple-builders placed a sloped roof over the entablature. This left a triangular space at each end of the building that begged for decoration. The Parthenon was built on the top of Acropolis; the original building on the site was built as an offering to honor the goddess Athena because the people of ancient Athens believed that she watched over their city. That time was the...
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