7. View of the interior of the Parthenon in its present condition

11. The Classical Orders: (from left to right) Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian

12. Rome: Colosseum with Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders

13. Paestum: Temple of Hera (1), 550 BCE Parthenon

14. The Post and Lintel System

21. Where to put the triglyph?

22. The Solution

27. The plastic system of Doric work is so pure that it gives almost the feeling of a natural growth, but we must realize that Doric architecture did not grow in the fields with the asphodels. It is entirely man’s creation, and affords us the complete sensation of a profound harmony. The forms used…are so deeply thought in regard to light and materials that they seem, as it were, linked to the earth and sky as if by nature. This creates a fact as reasonable to our understanding as the fact “sea”or the fact “mountain.” How many works of man have attained this height? Le Corbusier

28. Le Corbusier, Towards an Architecture (1927; originally published in French as Vers une architecture in 1923)

29. Le Corbusier: Sketch of the Parthenon