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The Five Orders of Architecture (Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura) is a book on classical architecture by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola from 1562, and is considered "one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written", [1] despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction. [2]
The Classical Orders Of Architecture. Elsevier/Architectural Press. ISBN 978-0-7506-6124-9. James Stevens Curl (2003). Classical Architecture: An Introduction to Its Vocabulary and Essentials, With a Select Glossary of Terms. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-73119-4. John Newenham Summerson (1963). The Classical Language of Architecture ...
Frederick C. Robie House, an example of Prairie School architecture. An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable. A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character.
The Tuscan order (Latin Ordo Tuscanicus or Ordo Tuscanus, with the meaning of Etruscan order) is one of the two classical orders developed by the Romans, the other being the composite order. It is influenced by the Doric order , but with un- fluted columns and a simpler entablature with no triglyphs or guttae .
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Hart, Vaughan, Day, Alan (1995). ‘A Computer Model of the Theatre of Sebastiano Serlio, 1545’, Computers and the History of Art, Harwood Academic Publishers, vol.5 no.1, pp.41-52. Hart, Vaughan (1998), ‘Decorum and the five Order of Architecture: Sebastiano Serlio’s Military City’, RES: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics, pp.75-84.
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