Measured archive
A compact comparative index of location, date, order and material. Each record links to institutional sources and an openly licensed image credit.
Complete index
Approximate dates remain approximate. Multi-phase projects retain their construction sequence.
01Acropolis, Athens, Greece
A precisely coordinated marble temple whose Doric exterior and continuous Ionic frieze make it an essential study in order, craft and visual refinement.
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02Acropolis, Athens, Greece
An asymmetrical Ionic building shaped by a difficult site and multiple sacred functions, with porches set at different levels.
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03Acropolis, Athens, Greece
A compact Ionic temple whose small footprint, projecting site and four-column façades show how monumentality can be achieved at a modest scale.
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04Ancient Agora, Athens, Greece
One of the best-preserved Greek temples, with a six-by-thirteen Doric colonnade and a clearly legible relationship between exterior and inner rooms.
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05Cape Sounion, Attica, Greece
A coastal Doric temple where local marble, strong wind and long sightlines make material exposure part of the architectural story.
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06Bassae, Arcadia, Greece
A remote mountain temple renowned for combining all three classical orders and for an interior arrangement unlike a standard textbook diagram.
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07Olympia, Elis, Greece
A major early Classical Doric temple whose collapsed drums and blocks reveal construction scale as clearly as the standing column restored on site.
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08Aegina, Greece
A late Archaic Doric temple with an unusually well-preserved upper structure and evidence for a two-tiered inner colonnade.
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09Athens, Greece
A colossal project completed across centuries, useful for separating an Archaic foundation history from its later Hellenistic and Roman Corinthian form.
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