The Foundations of Classical Architecture: Greek Classicism

In part two of the ICAA's four-part educational video series on classical architecture, architectural historian Calder Loth explores the fundamental role that Greek classicism has played in the development of Western architectural traditions.
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[@r.t.dominguez1717]

I have never seen an architectural video of this caliber let alone so historic in nature. I wish I've seen your videos 15-20 years ago. It would have helped me on my lectures tremendously. Great job Professor Calder Loth. I am a huge fan. ❤️ Thank you for making and sharing these videos! ❤️

[@josecortez1090]

I find it funny that sometimes us Mexicans half Spanish are more interested in western civilization than full blooded westerners themselves. Lmao...awkward!!!

[@adamcheklat7387]

@@josecortez1090 What are the odds of that?

[@josecortez1090]

@@adamcheklat7387 Very few and far in between.....

[@ArchiProcess]

Yeah same, I'm in my first year of architecture school and these videos have helped immensely

[@sonjak8265]

@@josecortez1090 Full blooded Westerns are busy working at a bank issuing loans to pay off their own loans. You are lucky if you do not have to work that way.

[@user-hs1ku7nd2l]

Love your lecture, love you, Mr. Loth! We are lucky having the opportunity to listen to you! Thanks a lot!

[@csd128]

This is a wonderful series! Please keep it up.

[@CASH-TO-THE-MERE101]

Chandan Deol 🔥🔥🔥

[@LamentingEnemy]

Fantastic video. It never ceases to amaze me how many free, quality resources are available on the internet!

[@pcatful]

This has so much more clear explanation than other introductions I've seen before. The comparisons of Greek and Roman orders is very helpful.

[@carloscolindres1447]

Minute 37:27, "Well we one-uped them with the thirty-column colonnade" lol!. Great video!

[@marcosargen3729]

I watched glued to the monitor. Thank you so much!

[@14daik]

well, I'm a modernist but very satisfying to watch his lectures for hours. really love it ♥

[@yinshantang]

Partially fluted Doric columns are elegantly beautiful

[@M4th3u54ndr4d3]

Oh, and would be very delightful to see a part 5 of this series. About doors, windows and arches. They are a a big part of roman and greek architecture. Look at the door in 33:47. This is so beautiful and ashtunishing.

[@invictusaeternum]

WHAT! This is a series!? My day just got so much better.

[@CASH-TO-THE-MERE101]

Matheus d'Andrigues 🔥🔥🔥

[@michaelsims6429]

BRAVO!!!!!!!! WOW!!!! This lecture is incredible! Thank you so much for your hard work and observations!!!

[@dehishetty6115]

Thank you for this series. Precise and very informative.

[@muscutt]

Great videos, they are just what I was looking for... Keep them coming!

[@M4th3u54ndr4d3]

I would love to see more about ancient sources from Middle East. Here they have some of the most ancient roman and greek monuments. Petra stone buildings, herodian architecture in Jerusalem, Palmyra ruins in Syria, and a lot of beautiful examples in Turkey (Hadrian temple and the Library of Celsus in Ephesus, Sagalassos ruins, Trajan temple in Pergamum, for example)

[@321girlwantstohavefun]

Ngl, I was using this video to fall asleep to. HOWEVER, walking up to it, it is actually a really interesting video. Ver in depth!

[@homunculus777]

That was terrific, thank you!

[@TheGerogero]

I confess myself to be an admirer of Grecian architecture.

[@markdavidsonjewell]

These are wonderful lectures!

[@mick2784]

Fantastic serie!

[@muskduh]

Great professor. Thanks again.

[@ypapantikoullias3800]

Great lecture! Thank you so much !

[@c59294fje]

I love this video. Thank you so much !

[@vladimirkraynyk]

Amazing, thank you so so much.

[@TheCaffeinatedOrganist]

Brilliant work.

[@andrebadenhorst3988]

New to architecture. Looking for reference in game environmental design. This was inspiring and informative .Thank you sincerely!

[@Nemesios777]

Amazing lecture!

[@jonchan8354]

Absolutely wonderful. Thanks

[@AntPDC]

Great stuff, thank you. A discussion of mutules would have been a useful inclusion in this lecture given that they are a uniquely distinctive element in Greek Doric architecture, and absent in every other order, Greek or Roman.

[@jo-vf8jx]

I think he went over that on the 1st video in this series, but I’m not be 100% certain.

[@Shazzyshell]

Fantastic! Thank you

[@tejasnair3399]

Thanks for this great lecture series. I don’t see why we shouldn’t be teaching things like classical architecture, rhetoric, musical form, in our public schools. We would have an American populace that understands the immesurable wealth that it’s culture has safegaurded for us, and that we can’t just ‘change the system’ without scruplulous study and deep insight.

[@finnersmcspeed5646]

Marvelous

[@Celtopia]

Thank you so very much .

[@cecilhoo9097]

Hi how r u. Very good video and information. I would luv to see some classical internal decor and embellishments. Thanks.

[@MomentsGap]

Love it when he says psychedelic version heheh near the end

[@TheBombson]

this gent should be everyones grandfather

[@DavidZwarych]

I just learned why I like the curvy Greek Ionic capital much more than the flat Roman Ionic. The Greek capital egg and dart moulding and plants on the neck band (anthemion) really appeals to my family farm upbringing.

[@dailydoseofsunshine2319]

Besides paint, i've noticed akroterion are typically absent in neoclassical buildings. does anyone know why this is?

[@SimonSozzi7258]

33:12 Not "exactly"... the corner Volutes on the Ancient Greek capitals are at an angle and catty-cornered. The Greek Revival is slightly Romanized and parallel with the front. Or they couldn't tell from the engraving that it was angled. 👏 Wonderful lecture.

[@nina-nk5sk]

I'm a new fan

[@mattfinleylive]

If the Entablature of the "Tower of the Winds" is Ionic, wouldn't one consider the Tower of the Winds more of a Greek "Composite" , even if pre-dating the later Roman Composite order?

[@Macedonio_le_provocateur_]

Αre there any architects left who can design such building? I am curious! Please someone who knows to answer me

[@leonstevens1382]

Many would would say as others, papyrus sheaves account for the fluting dating back to ancient Crete. One sees this fluting in Egypt

[@goognamgoognw6637]

Great video. Excellent dictation from the presenter. Grecian columns fluting did not come from removing tree bark from tree trunks leaving grooves made bigger by hand later duplicated in stone columns. For the simple reason that i had no problem whatsoever to easily remove tree bark from fallen trees using only basic hand tools (down to the hardwood). It was not difficult at all, left no unwanted groove and only took a couple of hours for an 150 year old oak tree and a hand sized chisel. Adding fluted grooves on the other hands would be a tremendously laborious and difficult work. So the speaker is in error, they did it intentionally, for aesthetic reasons. If you disagree try to recreate fluted columns from wood using only hand tools !.... good luck ! :)

[@johntaylor8463]

He said they used draw knives though. A curved drawknife or scorp removes the bark and leaves long grooves. Also it might be freshly felled greenwood, much easier to cut channels into than your oak

[@LowryYT]

how to determine whats roman and greek: if it has swag, its greek

[@daisybluegroff]

I can hear the sound engineer cue the host on the audio track... 9:54

[@stourleykracklite7663]

11:21 as well. What does the engineer say? It sounds like “Take!”

[@henrydoake6659]

They do not make em like they used to...

[@mikesluder2223]

Dry eyes?

[@mrmaestrouk]

COULDNT READ ONE ..MEASUREMENT… what’s the fooking point

[@KGB.83]

Great Wait? Grape? Wtf??

[@bobwilson7684]

nothing on the symbolism of those figures and images used, nothing on the origins of these symbolisms, not to mention the masonic connections, to me all this sound total bogus for mass distraction.

[@phly007]

No we didn’t steal these... we found them

[@papertoyss]

British Museum is actually Bristish Storage of Looted Foreign Artifacts. For God's sake...