Order refers to the different types of columns developed over the years. The orders from least ornate to the most are doric, ionic, corinthian, and composite. When we looked at the Acropolis, the Parthenon has doric and ionic columns while the neighboring Erechtheion has ionic columns. "Although the temple was built with the Doric order, massive and austere, and benefitting the goddess of war, the roof of the Parthenon chamber was supported by more delicate Ionic columns" (Roth 236). The orders were used to show hierarchy. Then, when we look to Rome, we see that the Colosseum has utilized the doric, ionic, and corinthian orders in the decorative architecture of the building. Doric is found at the bottom and corinthian at the top.
Entourage is one's environment or surroundings. In Suzanne's drawing class, we have been working in groups on a building on campus. The group I am with got the Mossman building. The drawing is actually from Human Resource Services, which is located on the first floor of the building. It shows the area just inside the office and the area surrounding it in the main area of the building. "At the base of the Acropolis, paths leading out to the surrounding farms eventually became streets, and along one of these, Northwest of the mass of the Acropolis, a roughly triangular, open space was set aside as the agora, whose boundaries were defined by the surrounding houses and public buildings" (Roth 222).
The Parthenon is a good example of hierarchy, because it is the largest building on the Acropolis. Also, all of the other buildings on the Acropolis face the Parthenon, which, in turn, draws the eye towards it. In drawing, hierarchy can be shown by what is closer. These parts of the drawing are larger than the rest, so they stick out more. Hierarchy can be shown from architectural structures, to furniture, to simple sketches. "By far the most important Greek building was the temple. Although it served a most vital public function and was a symbol of the polis, it was not a public building in the sense that we use the word, for only priests and selected individuals actully entered it" (Roth 229).
Archetype/Prototype/Hybrid. These are the process in developing a piece of architecture or even a piece of furniture. For example, the temple (Megaron) had to go through many changes to reach the desired look, the look of "perfection".
Source is the place at which something, such as an idea originates. The source for the temples of Greece would, of course, be the designers and architects who came up with the ideas. However, the ideas and the "images" of the building itself needed to be spread around. To do that, people who had seen the building would talk about it and eventually the ideas would spread all over the Grecian Empire. This is why several buildings can be found with a similar style, but be in completely different places of the empire. "The ancient Greeks learned much from Egypt, apparently adapting their earliest sculpture and post and lintel stone architecture from the Egyptian models" (Roth 215).
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