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Lot to talk about with this building.
Key part of the design is it isn’t built with 90 degree square angles, but intentionally slightly off so that it looks more square to the eye from the distance. Believe the structure expands slightly at the top to achieve that.
Good to research and write some papers about this.
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In the 1970s, the Greek government got serious about restoring the rapidly-deteriorating Acropolis and the Parthenon, which had become one of the country’s national treasures. They appointed an archaeological committee called the Acropolis Restoration Project.
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The Parthenon’s architects, Ictinus and Callicrates , and its chief sculptural artist, Phidias , have incorporated numerous “hidden” devices within its marble construction and carved decorations that were designed to trick the viewers’ eye, to make us believe we are witnessing something perfectly regular, sensible and balanced in all its aspects.
This doming of the temple base was reputedly done to avoid an optical “sagging” of the building’s middle that would have been perceived along its east and west ends and especially along its long north and south sides, if its lines were actually designed and built to be perfectly straight.
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