LE ORIGINI DEGLI ORDINI ARCHITETTONICI CLASSICI CONSIDERAZIONI IN MARGINE AD UNA RECENTE OPERA DI M. WILSON JONES

The history of architectural orders in ancient Greece is a subject that is usually addressed only from the formal point of view, seeking to reconstruct lines of development from wooden architecture or from architectural orders pertaining to other civilizations or historical periods. A recent book by M. Wilson Jones offers a more comprehensive approach. The Greek architectural orders did not observe mechanical laws of modification, but the architects improved on them from the formal point of view, with original solutions. This paper looks more closely into some aspects associated with the origins of Greek architecture, emerging from the new considerations by Wilson Jones, particularly regarding the first peripteral temples, the forms of capitals and the mouldings, the financing systems in monumental Greek architecture of the Archaic Period, and the connection between decorative forms and ideological aspects.