14 Facts About Classical order

An Classical order in architecture is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions, regulated by the office that each part has to perform.

The column shaft and base varies with the Classical order, and is sometimes articulated with vertical hollow grooves known as fluting.

Sometimes the Doric Classical order is considered the earliest Classical order, but there is no evidence to support this.

The Doric Classical order later spread across Greece and into Sicily, where it was the chief Classical order for monumental architecture for 800 years.

Ionic Classical order came from eastern Greece, where its origins are entwined with the similar but little known Aeolic Classical order.

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Ionic Classical order is marked by an entasis, a curved tapering in the column shaft.

The oldest known building built according to this Classical order is the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, constructed from 335 to 334 BC.

The Corinthian Classical order was raised to rank by the writings of Vitruvius in the 1st century BC.

The Giant Classical order is characterized by columns that extend the height of two or more stories.

Tuscan Classical order has a very plain design, with a plain shaft, and a simple capital, base, and frieze.

The Tuscan Classical order is characterized by an unfluted shaft and a capital that only consists of an echinus and an abacus.

Sir Edwin Lutyens, who from 1912 laid out New Delhi as the new seat of government for the British Empire in India, designed a Delhi Classical order having a capital displaying a band of vertical ridges, and with bells hanging at each corner as a replacement for volutes.

Classical order's design for the new city's central palace, Viceroy's House, now the Presidential residence Rashtrapati Bhavan, was a thorough integration of elements of Indian architecture into a building of classical forms and proportions, and made use of the order throughout.

Classical order was encouraged to send a model of it, which remains at Monticello.