Architecture is art that we live in. It is the science and art of designing buildings. Architecture is the way that the buildings around us look and function. Ancient Greeks lived, worked, and worshipped their gods in architectural spaces. In fact, the ancient Greeks invented the three Classical "orders" and a vocabulary for architecture that we still use today, over 2500 years later. This building is from view from Propylaia. This Greek building looks perty old and it looks destroyed. It looks like if there was a big earth quake and got all riped appart. The Propylaia view is sorrounded by pear sand and is the temple of Athena. Athena is theThe Acropolis hill, so called the "Sacred Rock" of Athens, is the most important site of the city. During Perikles' Golden Age, ancient Greek civilization was represented in an ideal way on the hill and some of the architectural masterpieces of the period were erected on its ground.
The first habitation remains on the Acropolis date from the Neolithic period. Over the centuries, the rocky hill was continuously used either as a cult place or as a residential area or both. The inscriptions on the numerous and precious offerings to the sanctuary of Athena (marble korai, bronze and clay statuettes and vases) indicate that the cult of the city's patron goddess was established as early as the Archaic period (650-480 B.C.). daughter of Zeus. Athena is the goddess of war and this is her temple.
Manchester was to the fore in adopting the classical architecture of Greece, as opposed to Rome, for public buildings. The appreciation of Greek architecture had grown during the later C18, as more adventurous travellers, including many architects, began to include Greece and Asia Minor (modern Turkey) as part of the Grand Tour. Those without the means to travel could consult published architectural surveys, notably James Stuart and Nicholas Revett's four-volume The Antiquities of Athens (1762-1816). The early C19 saw the erection in Manchester of three distinguished Greek Buildings by Thomas Harrison, 1802-6, the Theatre Royal, 1803 and the Exchange building. The popularity of the style was confirmed by its use for Manchester's first town hall of 1819-34 by Francis Goodwin, an outwardly manginficent building which used the Ionic order of the Erectheum in Athens. Architecture is art that we live in. It is the science and art of designing buildings. Architecture is the way that the buildings around us look and function. Ancient Greeks lived, worked, and worshipped their gods in architectural spaces. In fact, the ancient Greeks invented the three Classical "orders" and a vocabulary for architecture that we still use today, over 2500 years later.