Thirteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices

Abstract

The consequential philosophical yearning and classical architecture had acquired an exceptional significance during the culmination of ancient Greek world despite all the conflicts and crisis; which are still contextual. In this interdisciplinary study, an estimated “theory” and “hypothesizing” took the major motivating tributary to descend a relation between the modalities of classical philosophy and theory of aesthetics associated with ancient Greek architecture. Thus discourses from philosophy, humanities, and artistic theories regarding Greek architectural features are brought within reach. For that, visual, material, construction, and stylistic analysis of Greek architecture have constructed the “what and how” while the iconographic discussions will lead us to the answers of “why”. Some supportive analyses of socio-political history, text, and biographies are also deliberated to correlate and prove the evidences. Who knows, architecture might be the memento of Greek metaphysical manifestation; where the then Greek religion, power and patronization, economy, cultural exchange, humane thought and overall, their philosophy translated into hoary stones- something which is still a mystery. Such hypotheses will distillate that how influential were these deep-sighted thoughts and made them able to constituent all these white carving-stone poetry. The philosophical responsiveness might have sprouted from the immanent interrogations in architecture through form function and space, as a speculation of external and transcendental questions to search the “Ideal”. The possible coherence of architecture with philosophy without any distinct horizon in-between, which is less focused earlier, designates the originality of this discourse.