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Doric column: Heavy, fluted column with plain saucer-shaped capital and no base
Doric columns are generally carved with vertical, parallel channels known as flutes, which should, properly speaking, number twenty.

 


Doric Column. In ancient Greece, the shaft would have set directly on the ground, without a base.
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The Doric column order, preferred style of Greek mainland and southern Italy, including Sicily, was developed by the Dorians, one of the two divisions of Greek race.

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Of the three columns found in Greece, Doric columns are the simplest. They have a capital (the top, or crown) made of a circle topped by a square. The shaft (the tall part of the column) is plain and has 20 sides.

Doric Order -- A classical order with simple, unadorned capitals.
Dormer Window -- A window that projects from a roof.
Double Hung Window -- A window with two sashes, one sliding vertically over the other.

Doric order - classical fluted columns with simple, plain capital and no base
dormer - vertical window projecting from the slope of a roof
eaves - the portion of the roof that projects beyond the roof ...

Doric The simplest of the three classical orders of Greek architecture.
Dormer A window which projects from a sloping roof.
Double-hung Window A window which operates by means of two sashes that slide vertically past each other.

Doric
an Order in architecture comprising a column, fluted shaft and plain capital but with no base.
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doric column
A Greek-style column with only a simple decoration around the top, usually a smooth or slightly rounded band of wood, stone or plaster.
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Doric order: (Greek) oldest classical form of column, usually employing entasis.
dormer: window with its own roof set vertically in a sloping roof.
dorter: Monastic dormitory.

Doric order - a classical order most readily distinguished by its simple, unornamented capitals and the tablets with vertical grooving, called triglyphs, set at regular intervals in the frieze.

Doric
The earliest of the orders of classical architecture.
Drum
A cylindrical or polygonal wall which supports a dome. Also called a tambour. Also used to describe the cylindrical sections of stone that make up the shaft of a column.

Doric order
One of the three orders or organisational systems of Ancient Greek or classical architecture characterised by columns which stood on the flat pavemen...
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Doric
An order of classical architecture - characterised by squat, flat, wedge-like capitals.
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Doric - An order (q.v.) of Classical architecture. It is the plainest order; the capital is a disc.
Double-fronted - House front consisting of two principle bays, often stepped, perhaps with a central door or porch.

Roman Doric
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A common version of the simplest and plainest of the three main classical orders, which features a frieze with triglyphs and metopes.

Doric Order
One of the five orders of classical architecture, which also include: Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. The Doric order was developed in Greece and adopted by the Romans.

Doric (earliest and simplest) Doric columns usually have no base; the shaft is thick and broadly fluted, the capital is plain.
Ionic (second) Ionic columns are usually slender, with fluted shafts, and prominent volutes on the capital.

Doric - The simplest of the three classical orders of Greek architecture.
Dormer - The setting for a vertical window in the roof. Called a gable dormer if it has its own gable or shed dormer if a flat roof. Most often found in upstairs bedrooms.

Doric One of five classical orders, recognizable by its simple capital. The Greek Doric column has a fluted shaft and no base; the Roman Doric column may be fluted or smooth and rests on a molded base.

Doric order in the Parthenon
The cornice molding is the set of projecting moldings that crown an entablature along the top edge of a temple or building. The cornice lies above the frieze, which rests on the architrave, all supported by columns.

Doric
The most massive and probably the oldest of the orders. The Greek doric had no base, the Romans added one. Shafts are fluted, numbers vary, but there are usually around twenty.

Doric
Order The first and simplest of the three Greek orders and the only one that normally has no base.
Entablature
The upper horizontal part of a classical order, between a capital and the roof; it consists of the architrave, frieze, and cornice.

The Doric engaged pilasters holding the portico on the building side are also fluted but otherwise unadorned and very imposing. The Georgian style was one of substance and solidity.

in a Doric frieze, the rectangular area between the metopes, decorated with three vertical grooves (glyphs).
Trilithon
an ancient monument consisting of two vertical megaliths supporting a third as a lintel.

On a Greek Doric column, an ovolo or wide convex moulding below the abacus or top part of the capital.Edge railOn a railway, a rail on which flanged wheels can run. Compare plate rail.

Dorian order, Doric order - the oldest and simplest of the Greek orders and the only one that normally has no base
Ionian order, Ionic order - the second Greek order; the capital is decorated with spiral scrolls ...

Roman Doric
Tuscan
Corbel - a block of stone, elaborately carved, projecting from a wall and sometimes supporting a load like the beams of a roof, floor or vault, or sometimes used for decorative effect only.

There are five main orders, each with their own ornaments, proportions, and measurements: Tuscan, Greek Doric (and Roman Doric), lonic, Corinthian, and Composite.

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Doric The simplest of the Classical orders of Greek architecture, characterized by wide shafts, simple capitals (semicircle topped with a square) and no bases. The Parthenon in Athens is an example of Doric architecture.

upright member of a circular section, usually for a support DENTIL: a small square shape often repeated in a horizontal line DOME: a vault of even curvature on a circular base which can be segmental, semicircular, pointed, or bulbous DORIC ORDER: the ...

Three styles of columns in Roman architecture include the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. The debut of arches led to the development of domes like the Pantheon. The idea of arches became a central theme of the Romanesque and Gothic periods.

New settlements were given Greek names-Syracuse, Ithaca, Troy-and Doric and Ionic columns, entablatures, and pediments, mostly transmuted into white-painted wood, ...

Classical Orders - Three main styles in the design of a column and its entablature: Corinthian, Ionic, Doric.
Clerestory - Wall above supportive columns that is pierced by windows.
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The Doric frieze had a structural origin as the triglyphs suggest vertical support.

Floor plan for all sytles (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) is basiclly the same example of a floor plan is shown here
Doric Style
- Many Plain Large Columns containing little desgin
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In 476 Ravenna fell to Odoacer, the first Germanic king of Italy, who in turn was overthrown by Theodoric, the king of the Ostrogoths from 471, and ruler of Italy from 493-526. Theodoric made Ravenna his capital in 493.

There were two main styles (or "orders") of Greek architecture, the Doric and the Ionic.

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order - Greek temple architecture was divided into three orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian), then the Romans added three more (Composite, Roman Doric, Tuscan).

doric, ionic, etc.) the capital is diminutive and the columns are slender. Emphasis is placed on the central entrance, which is often set apart with a small, one story portico, a crowning fanlight and narrow sidelights.

Greek Doric capitals are fluted and plain, Roman Doric capitals are smooth and plain, Ionic capitals have a rams horns at all four corners, and a Corinthian capital is highly decorative with curling acanthus leaves.

Abacus - The flat slab on the top of a capital: in Greek Doric a tick square slab; in Greek Ionic, Tuscan, Roman Doric and Ionic, square with the lower edge moulded; in Corinthian and Composite with concave sides and the corners cut off.

triglyph:
an ornament in a Doric frieze, consisting of a projecting block having three parallel vertical channels on its face
tympanum:
a recessed ornamental space or panel enclosed by the cornices of a triangular pediment ...

Triglyph: projecting members separating the metopes of a Doric frieze and divided into three strips by two vertical grooves
Velatium: the awning stretched above a amphitheater to protect spectators from the sun ...

In the Doric order it consists of metope - a square panel sculpted with figures - and triglyph - panels with three vertical grooves. In the other orders the band of the frieze is usually continuous and is entirely decorated with sculpted figures.

Building: Mauseoleum of Theodoric
Date: ca. 520 CE
Rome (Italy)
Building: Basilica of St. John Lateran
Date: Rebuilt 17th and 18th centuries ...

IDENTIFYING FEATURES: Gable or hipped, low-pitch roof; dentil cornice emphasized with wide band of trim -- cornice represents classical entablature (includes cornice, frieze, architrave); porches: square or rounded columns (usually Doric), ...

Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, etc., varying primarily in details of the capital) as documented by Andrea Palladio and other architects of the Italian Renaissance (14th-17th centuries).

The three types of columns normally seen on greek revival house plans are the Doric (which has plain capitals), the Ionic (which has scroll-like spiral called volutes), and the corinthian (which has decorative leaves).

Chief among these qualities are a sense of conscious restraint in the handling of themes and a sense of rational ordering and proportioning of forms. In architecture, the classical orders are the three Greek orders-the Doric, Ionic, ...

Distinctive of it are what are called the orders of architecture, by which term are understood certain modes of proportioning and decorating the column and its superimposed entablature. The Greeks had three orders, called respectively the Doric, ...

Tuscan Order A Roman order resembling the Doric without a fluted shaft. Back to Top
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vault An arched brick or stone ceiling or roof.

order one of the five classical architectural formulas consisting of base, column, and entablature: seen most easily in the capital of a column, the orders range from the plainest (Tuscan and Doric) to the scrolled Ionic, the leafy Corinthian, ...

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