Talk:Classical architecture

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General state of article
This article is pretty rubbish. A few random points about ethnic identity and not very much about classical architecture! It doesn't even mention that the ancient Greeks didn't use the arch, whereas the ancient Romans did. I hope no one minds if I give it a bit of a re-write. Yaris678 (talk) 11:40, 13 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I was hoping you would be an expert on the subject, it certainly needs work. I believe the Greek and Roman architecture is 'classical antiquity', and classical architecture is what developed from that, from the Renaissance onward. More research or an expert needed though. ProfDEH (talk) 13:37, 3 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Hmmm... certainly the Greeks and Romans wouldn't have used the term classical, unless perhaps they were wishing to distinguish one building from another. The modern use of classical architecture starts in the renaissance and is down to Andrea Palladio who studied ancient Greek and Roman architecture and applied the principles to his own buildings.  I think Palladio is an example of classicism, but it makes sense to refer to the original as classical, in the same way as classical mythology or, indeed, classical order.  Yaris678 (talk) 13:52, 3 December 2009 (UTC)


 * A prerequisite for editing this article might be John Summerson, The Classical Language of Architecture, 1963, often reprinted and still available in paperback.--Wetman (talk) 17:20, 3 December 2009 (UTC)


 * A good book! We should definitely cite it in our article.  It can be accessed through google books
 * http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=57aoJE26kQkC&pg=PA7
 * A more recent book, with more pictures, is also available
 * http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WfMknLxaJCwC&pg=PP1

Removed a sentence from the intro - many of the most famous buildings are palazzos / stately homes, not public at all. ProfDEH (talk) 18:11, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Petrifaction
Moved a bit of content from the article Petrifaction to here as it was about architecture style rather than fossilization. Have fun with it. Vsmith (talk) 04:36, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Petrification
I suggest that this section be moved to its own page instead. Any thoughts? Yakikaki (talk) 08:35, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Moorish and others
How come Moorish Architecture ( and Moorish Revival ) is not added in the info box down at the bottom of the article? I also notice the absense of Post Modern Architecture.

Ungrateful and Diminishing article
One would not expect anything better from an Anglo-Saxon redneck ideology driven illiterate encyclopaedic web-page, as Wikipedia such as it is. Shortage of historians or architects in the English world to write a decent classical architecture article when not even a Greek temple is shown, but only the American redneck copies of it? The usual allergy that sends shivers inside the so-called "western" redeck neobarbarians when they have to refer to Greek or Roman History. On the other hand I do remember the half-page also diminishing article on Magna Graecia trying to squeeze a millenium of Greek colonial history with scientints, philosophers, poets, many surviving Greek temples into a half a page of a wikipedia article. But as usually the rednecks favor and honour the eastern illiterate nomads of Petra with a multi-page article. And the article on Theater, with no mention on the Greek origins of the subject but rather an English flavor to it from the usual neobarbaric idiots. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ate Nike (talk • contribs) 13:58, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

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