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Grupico, Theresa Marie. The influence of urban planning on temple design in West Greece. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T34M94W8

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Uniform TitleThe influence of urban planning on temple design in West Greece
NameGrupico, Theresa Marie (author); Kenfield, John (chair); Small, Jocelyn (internal member); Marder, Tod (internal member); Cargill, Jack (outside member); Rutgers University; Graduate School - New Brunswick
Date Created2008
Other Date2008-10 (degree)
SubjectArt History, City planning--Greece, Temples--Greece--Design and construction, Greece
Extentxvi, 792 pages
DescriptionThis dissertation addresses the questions of whether, and to what extent, West Greek urban planning influenced the design of Archaic and Classical Greek temples. The dissertation examines non-peripteral temples and sacred edifices as well as peripteral temples in both extra-urban and urban sanctuaries at nine of the most well excavated sites, and makes reference to additional buildings and sites.
The dissertation is divided into two parts. Part 1, including Chapters 1 and 2, examines the locations and layouts of sanctuaries with respect to urban layouts. Chapter 1 concludes that temples and sanctuaries were strategically positioned to fulfill the needs of urban planning. Chapter 2 concludes that urban grids encouraged the regularization of sanctuary layouts and influenced the orientations and typologies of temples. The chapter additionally finds that the horizontal and vertical lines of the peristyle and Doric frieze echoed the lines of the urban grid and reinforced the visual association between temples and grids.
Part 2, including Chapters 3 and 4, examines correlations between specific design elements of temple ground plans and urban grids. Chapter 3 examines the dimensional and proportional correlations between ground plans and grids, and concludes that temple widths and/or lengths were generally coordinated with a grid's lot width, block width, or overall module (block width plus street width). In the case of peripteral temples, the result was that the ground plan components of peristyle, stylobate, and stereobate were proportionate to each other as well as to the grid. Chapter 4 examines the method of division of grids and of peripteral temple ground plan lengths. The chapter concludes that urban grids were modularly divided according to a general rule (1: 1/2: 1/4: 1/8) or variation of this rule, and proposes that West Greek peripteral temples were similarly divided. The chapter finds that the same rule was adopted in the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, considered the canon of Classical temple architecture.
The dissertation concludes that West Greek temples were coordinated with urban grids for aesthetic and theoretical as well as pragmatic reasons, and that West Greek urban planning fostered the Greek ideal of symmetria, 'commensurability of parts.'
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 261-292).
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T34M94W8
LanguageEnglish
CollectionGraduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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