Classical Greek Influences on Today's American Architecture
Before reading this, it is necisary that you click on the picture of the "Caesers Hotel" pictue in the gallery below. It is the picture on your left in the second row of the gallery
Although the arches shown in this picture of the Caesers Hotel in Las Vegas are Roman (as the hotel is themed to be “Roman”), the bulding to the left is distinctly ancient Greek. Eventhough the capitals and bases are gold, a modern addition, the architecture greatley resembles that of the Greeks. The colums are of the ancient Greek corinthian order as they lack the scrolls of the similar Roman Composite column, and the triangular roof represnents those of Greek temples, such as the parthenon.
This blending of civlizational architecture between the Roman and Greek civilizations tends to be used in many modern recreational sites, as most visitors do not care about or realize the multi-culture blending.In the other pictures in the gallery below, the first of a modern day house, and the second of the hotel "Atlantis", combinations of Greek and Roman orders are apparent. This raises two questions: Is "Greek" architecture bound to the perameters of the orders? And is our knowledge of Greek architecture in general declining, allowing the manipulation of the different forms?
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