Thursday, August 7, 2014

#015 - Parthenon - The Nexus of Everything

"The Parthenon enjoys the reputation of being the most perfect Doric temple ever built. Even in antiquity, its architectural refinements were legendary, especially the subtle correspondence between the curvature of the stylobate, the taper of the naos walls and the entasis of the columns." - John Julius Cooper

David Rader and Nathan Koskovich kickoff our architecture history series with the Parthenon and speculate on why it still matters to architects.