College of Environmental Design
Department of Architecture, UC Berkeley
Architecture Slide Library
Fall 1995 James Study Aid 8
I. A survey of building types within the classical Greek city-state or polis and in later Hellenistic cities, some of which were ruled by kings. Privileges of male citizens in a democracy versus legal restrictions upon women and slaves. Expansion through colonization, especially of Anatolia and southern Italy.
II. Delos ( Image 1 or Olynthos(Greece), after 432 BCE. Agora, Athens (Greece), 5th-2nd centuries BCE. Dynamic, irregular placement of symmetrically designed buildings. Major building type within the agora was the stoa, a long colonnaded meeting place housing individual cells serving a variety of uses including shops. Ekklasiasterion, here from Priene (Turkey), c 200 BCE. Housed gatherings of citizenry meeting to govern the polis.
V. Other meeting places include open-air theaters. Example from Pergamon or (Greece), 3rd-2nd centuries BCE. Altar of Zeus, Pergamon, 197- 159 BCE. Issue of evolution of artistic and architectural form, classical versus later (decadent?) forms.
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